Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest Congressional victory since Roosevelt's 1936 triumph, the Democrats effectively broke the power of the Republican party in the Midwest and the Far West. Capturing almost two-thirds of each House of Congress, the Democrats made the United States into a legislative one-party country for the next two years...
...Republican hopes that the farm revolt had been pacified were not realized. The Democrats picked up Congressional seats along the entire length of the Mississippi and Missouri River valleys...
...great California Republican defeat, coupled with the complete victory of Nelson Rockefeller in New York, poses the greatest threat vice-president Nixon has faced in his aspiration to the Presidency...
...magnitude of the Republican defeat, outside New York, makes Rockefeller an extremely likely possibility for the Republican nomination...
...Congress, the liberals of both parties finally have enough strength to override the Southern Democrat-Republican coalition which has dominated Congress for the last 20 years...