Word: republicans
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...Thus, since 58% of all U.S. Catholics are Democrats (see chart), a Republican Catholic candidate might lure one out of every seven Democratic voters to his cause. Unsurprisingly, nearly all Catholics (95%) said they would vote for a candidate who shared their politics as well as their religion. The insignificant 2% who would not vote for a fellow Catholic of the same political persuasion were afraid of upsetting Protestant-Catholic relations...
...vote by the comfortable margin of 57% to 43%. By deducting from the totals those voters who say they will oppose a Catholic under any circumstances, Gallup evened the odds: Kennedy, 50%; Nixon, 50%. But he had a final word of statistical encouragement for Kennedy: if Kennedy counts those Republican Catholics who would jump fences to vote for a fellow Catholic, he could hope for a narrow popular tally: Kennedy, 53%; Nixon...
...deliver his televised victory statement. Grady had small reason to be humble. Two months earlier, in only his second campaign, he had knocked off wily Three-Termer D'Alesandro for mayor in the Democratic primary. Last week, Grady mowed down equally seasoned (onetime mayor, two-term Governor) Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin by a record 81,000 votes...
...only the medieval backdrop gave the scene a curiously old-fashioned air. A scrupulous republican, Charles de Gaulle nonetheless seeks to recall a past regal grandeur (last week his photograph, in the evening dress uniform of an armored-forces general, was ordered displayed in every public building in France). And in the same grand manner, De Gaulle at Bourges took up the national nightmare that has haunted Frenchmen for 4½ bloody years...
Karamanlis would have seen something different: the police and armed forces of the Turkish Republic forcibly attempting to prevent ordinary citizens of Ankara from welcoming ex-President Ismet Inonu. 74, leader of Turkey's Republican People's Party and leading opponent of Premier Adnan Menderes' ruling Democrats...