Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slight leads in Tennessee and Kentucky. The Democrats claimed North Carolina and South Carolina-two states that Nixon had been counting in his column-and signs were mounting that Southern Negroes, who had been strong for Ike, were swinging back to the Democrats (in Durham, N.C., one bellwether Negro precinct that went 66% for Ike in 1956 went 66% for Kennedy...
Nixon won Harry Truman's home precinct, but little else, Democratic winners in clean sweeps were Kennedy, Governor-elect John Dalton, re-elected Senator Edward Long, and House Parliamentarian Clarence Cannon...
Since then, Bagwell and his liberal followers have been toiling to modernize the G.O.P.'s machinery and philosophy. The liberal Republican chairman. 39-year-old Larry Lindemer, a trim Lansing lawyer who rose to power along with Bagwell, started a precinct-by-precinct vote analysis, replaced many social climbers with politically minded recruits, re-established G.O.P. outposts in the far corners of the state. Meanwhile, Bagwell has been hammering home his liberal philosophy...
...section, has battled his way through politics ever since he ran for (and won) the presidency of his junior high school student government. After Georgetown law school (1951), he served in the legislature for three terms, then beat a twelve-year incumbent in the Springfield mayoralty elections, carrying every precinct in the city for the first time in history. As mayor, he put through a dynamic modernization and urban renewal program, reduced the tax rate. Billing himself as "Springfield's Great Young Mayor," O'Connor showed himself over and over again on TV and in the papers with...
...sign up with the Democrats. To handle this key job, Kennedy picked an old friend, New Jersey Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., 42, as the head of a nationwide organization of door-to-door volunteers. Said Thompson, after a fast trip to Hyannisport: "We're going to canvass every precinct." ¶The usual "independent volunteers" or ganization was set up, charged with luring not only independents and Republicans into the Kennedy camp, but also "dissident Democrats" - that is, Northern and Eastern Democrats who cannot stand Johnson, and Southern Democrats who quail at Jack. National Chairman: Denver Lawyer (and onetime University...