Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against this versatile onslaught, Eddie never really had a chance. Teddy won every ward in Boston, supposedly McCormack's bastion. He even carried Eddie's home precinct in Dorchester, 317-304. By the size and scope of his victory, Kennedy became an early-book favorite for November over Republican Nominee George Cabot Lodge, 35, another smiling scion of another famous Massachusetts family...
...then added, "I have a pretty good idea, but I'm not going to tell you. What are you bothering about them for, anyway? What race are you? Why don't you worry about your own race?" I left and eventually obtained my information quite simply from a precinct chart...
They spent last Tuesday touring precinct polling places, meeting candidates...
...precinct workers dish out blotters showing Shell riding a missile...
Across the U.S., big-city G.O.P. leaders have been stirred by the "Bliss Report." a detailed analysis written by Ohio State Chairman Ray C. Bliss of the party's failure to win elections because of poor precinct-by-precinct organization in the cities. He pointed out that Richard Nixon lost in 1960 because Republicans produced majorities in only 14 of the 41 largest cities; that these cities contain 28% of the U.S. population, and that in nearly half the states such metropolitan areas determine the outcome of statewide elections...