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Familiar Chant. In Oregon this year, Democratic registration has moved ahead of Republican. Wayne Morse has strong financial support from COPE, the political arm of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and labor, as rarely before, is organizing the precincts on Morse's behalf. Moreover, Democrat Morse has a break on the issues: 1) because of the nationwide slowdown in home building, Oregon's billion-dollar lumber business has slacked off; 2) because of lower farm prices, Eastern Oregon's big-business wheat farmers are pouting; and 3) even though private enterprise already is hard at work on a power...
Increasingly and almost imperceptibly Ike has become and is becoming less the briefed and more the briefer; always he is developing new interests, new knowledge, about the kaleidoscopic facets of his job. As of now, for example, he is fascinated by the electoral mechanism of democracy at the precinct level; as of now, Ike, aware that his party is as short on expounding its theory as it is long on pragmatic accomplishment, is prodding and stimulating the thinkers of dynamic conservatism, specifically including himself. "It is what I do," he says of all his energies and activities. "I always...
...cent of the precinct's major-party votes went to Eisenhower, and 43.9 per cent to Stevenson. The national vote went 55.4 per cent for Eisenhower and 44.6 per cent for Stevenson...
...three-day, door-to-door polling reached about half of the precinct's voters and covered every street. This middle-class precinct has mostly small, one-family homes, with a few two-family dwellings. It has a stable population, including many city and state employes. There is a large Irish segment, and many, even Eisenhower supporters, describe themselves as Democrats. It has not been redistricted within the last eight years...
...employed, and this fact doubtless accounts in part for a Republican bias in the poll's 1952 returns. According to the voters' claims, those polled went 389 for Eisenhower, and 218 for Stevenson. This would give Eisenhower 64.1 per cent, although he actually drew only 56.1 percent in the precinct. Another explanation for this discrepancy, shown in some previous national polls, is a tendency to claim to have voted with the winning side on the part of people whose memories are hazy, or who actually did not vote...