Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the U.S. woke up after the election with a ticket-splitting headache, many politicians and most pundits agreed with the hasty diagnosis of Fair-Dealing Columnist Thomas Stokes: "The personal victory of President Eisenhower dramatizes, by contrast, the increasing weakness of his party." This was a glib, convenient way of talking about Democratic congressional victories against the Eisenhower avalanche. But it was also a superficial and misleading explanation of an election that carried a deeper and vastly more significant meaning...
Tattered Coattails. Political coattails were next to worthless. Adlai Stevenson had depended on strong Democratic state tickets to help him win; only in Missouri, where the Democratic ticket was led by able Senator Tom Hennings. did "Operation Reverse Coattails" succeed. Oregon's Republican Douglas McKay chatted endlessly at the corner gas station or general store about his service as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Interior. But Oregonians were interested in issues, e.g., public power, declining lumber prices, and they re-elected the man who discussed those issues: professorial Democratic Senator Wrayne Morse (who was also pretty good...
...gone for Stevenson by as much as 75% in 1952. Only in Missouri did Stevenson manage to stem the Eisenhower tide-and that state's reversal of its 1952 vote was due less to the farm revolt than to a wretched Republican machine, a strong Democratic state ticket, and a smooth Democratic organization...
...small oil stove, the President of the U.S. marked his ballot in the election of 1956. It took him just 45 seconds. For Mamie Eisenhower, the process was somewhat longer. She popped out of the booth to ask if one X would take care of the whole ticket. Assured that it would, she marked her ballot, and said: "Fine, that takes care of everything.'' Then she and her husband dropped their ballots in the battered, wooden ballot box that showed the wear and tear of many elections, and headed back to the farm...
...Michigan's bow-tied. New-Dealing Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams won a fifth term after a seemingly easygoing-hut decidedly breathless-campaign against his toughest competition ever: Detroit's capable Republican Mayor Albert E. Cobo, 63. Soapy benefited mightily from Michigan's split-ticket voters was even strong upstate, far from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. machines in the big cities...