Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party politics developed, it was discovered that a State's importance in national politics was emphasized if all its electors could be won by one party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names its ticket of electors. The names of the national nominees for whom they are pledged to vote are usually printed in big type at the top of the ballot. That ticket of electors is the winner which receives a popular plurality, and to their Nominees goes the entire electoral vote of that State...
Other circumstances under which a state's electoral vote can be but seldom is split are: 1) when two weak parties join forces and present a fusion ticket sharing the electoral votes according to a predetermined arrangement, 2) When enough voters go out of their way to "scratch" the names of individual electors...
...political predictions are met with hearty laughter by the Other Side, but Mr. Raskob was answered with jeers and booes for concluding his prediction with the following statement: "This leaves States with 184 votes, every one of which is fighting ground, and there is good indication that the Democratic ticket will corral over 100 of these...
...Senate (1914-15), William Fairfield Whiting has believed him a man of destiny. He believed even more faithfully than Mr. Coolidge's political pastor, the late great Winthrop Murray Crane. In 1920 a delegate to the Chicago convention, Mr. Whiting voted to the bitter end to head the ticket with Mr. Coolidge. Then, after Mr. Crane and Senator Lodge and the rest of the Massachusetts men had capitulated to the Ohio idea, Mr. Whiting pushed their man again for vice president. Mr. Crane was dour. "He's done," he said. But Mr. Whiting had distributed copies of Calvin...
Governor Zimmerman, once a La Follettite, early advertised himself as a ticket-mate of Nominee Hoover. He got himself endorsed by the W. C. T.U. and the Anti-saloon League...