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...Strom Thurmond: POPULAR 1,006,363 ELECTORAL...
From New York's Thomas E. Dewey: "The name of Connie Mack stands for what is best in our national game . . ." From South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond: "Yours is a record which has no equal..." From Alabama's James Folsom: "Your life has been an inspiration . . ." From Louisiana's Earl K. Long: "America is all the richer for people like...
President Truman seemed headed for outright election, or at least a deadlocked race, at 3:45 a. m. this morning. He was ahead in 28 states with 292 electoral votes. Dewey led in 16 states with 201 electoral votes. Thurmond was ahead in four states with 38 electoral votes...
...hundred-sixty-six votes are needed for election. If no candidate gets this, the election will go to the newly elected House of Representatives, unless the Thurmond electors should switch their allegiance. The House would then choose among Truman, Dewey, and Thurmond, with the states voting as a unit and casting one vote apiece...
...impossible to pass smoothly from Calvin Coolidge to the Deep South in one sentence, so don't be startled to find yourself reading about Princeton. Last week there was a poll on presidential candidates, at Princeton, suh, and J. Strom Thurmond got more than 10 percent of the votes while Harry Truman got only 8 percent. Thomas E. Dewey got 72 percent. And at Wellesley, to round out the castern collegiate poll situation, Dewey got about 600, Truman about 40, and Wallace between 30 and 40. In view of this, I would like to suggest, on behalf of both...