Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slow March. Although some old Roosevelt-era party loyalties were revived, U.S. voters put on an impressive display of ticket splitting. Massachusetts, Minnesota and New Mexico went for Kennedy but elected Republican Governors. Indiana, Nebraska and North Dakota went for Nix on but elected Democratic Governors...
...result of all the ticket splitting was that, while some 50% of the electorate opted to follow John Kennedy out to the New Frontier, the new 87th Congress will be more conservative in makeup than the old. The G.O.P. gained two Senate seats (Delaware and Wyoming) and a net of 23 House seats (with four races still in doubt). The overall Democratic vote percentage in congressional races slipped from...
This rationale served while Kennedy's machine rolled relentlessly toward the nomination. Hopefully, the expediency motive could be tucked away after the convention victory; but the apologists had to drag it out again to abort the North's small uproar over the inclusion of Johnson on the ticket, and to excuse other disappointing aspects of the Kennedy campaign...
Police officers will of course continue to ticket bicycles and motor scooters for such offenses as riding or parking on sidewalks, not observing stop and go signals, passing on the right, and riding down one way streets in the wrong direction, McCarthy asserted. These violations, he noted, have continued despite the ticketing campaign begun a week...
...Nixon Iowa, Republican State Senator Jack Miller gave the lie to advance predictions of widespread ticket splitting by his surprise victory over popular Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless, 49. Hanging firmly onto the Nixon coattails, Newcomer Miller cinched the seat vacated by retiring Republican Senator Thomas Martin with an aggressive campaign in which he used the time-honored device of dramatizing Loveless' refusal to argue the issues with him by staging debates with an empty chair...