Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Wilson's first election in 1912 with 41.9% of the vote, has a President received so small a share as Nixon has. And no other modern President has been elected to a first term to confront a Congress controlled by the opposition. Although the G.O.P. gained Senate strength, its progress toward domination of the House was surprisingly slight. The 91st Congress will be in Democratic hands...
Meanwhile, both parties will be seeking new foundations on which to enlarge their strength. They will have a common target among the young. Both parties must seek to reclaim the Deep South and to win back the disenchanted on the right and left elsewhere as well. In the process, the Republicans and Democrats might find some of the social remedies that both major candidates promised when they repeatedly pledged themselves to lead the nation and re-store national unity...
...even greater surprise was the extent to which the vote generally followed more traditional party lines. Instead of the convulsive upheaval that many had foreseen, the election was unpredictably normal in several important respects. Up to a point, the voting patterns followed those of 1960; the Democrats drew their strength largely from the big industrial states of the Northeast, plus Michigan, West Virginia, Minnesota and Texas. Richard Nixon, as he had eight years ago, attracted the Republican faithful of the suburbs. He carried virtually the same Midwestern states that he had won against John Kennedy, as well as the entire...
...harried by a remarkably high proportion of voters who angrily refused to discuss their choice, the nation's major pollsters went into Election Day under a cloud of acrimony. George Gallup and Louis Harris had been markedly far apart for weeks on their reports of Hubert Humphrey's strength. In late September, Gallup placed the Democratic nominee 15 percentage points behind, while Harris consistently pegged Humphrey much closer, sometimes only half as far back...
...Temple Drake is calm. She says, "I won't be the last sanctuary," and one can see the quiet determination which is her greatest strength. "For every majorette they lock up," she says, "there are ten more waiting. I knew I had to do something. I know others will follow in my steps...