Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After local Democrats supported national ticket never doubtful. Plurality of more than 120,000. All 12 electors will support Kennedy...
Kennedy, as expected, swept predominantly Catholic Rhode Island, taking the local state ticket with him. Lt. Gov. John Notte, keeping pace with the Kennedy total, upset Republican Gov. Christopher DelSesto. Clairborne Pell, winner of a three-cornered Senatorial primary fight, ran ahead of Kennedy to win by a 150,000 plurality...
...religion was ever thought to have been decisive, this was the state. Republicans had privately counted on it. Yet Kennedy squeaked through by 10,000. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a Democrat who still has not supported the national ticket, won without opposition...
...corralling, along the way, a strong voting strength from the South, the Eastern Seaboard and his native New England. Kennedy's case was powerfully helped when Connecticut Democratic Boss John Bailey circulated a memo showing that Kennedy's Roman Catholicism would be a political asset to the ticket in the industrial states...
...Broaway theatre where The Music Man is playing, a Syracuse football fan, in for the Army game and drinking off the loss, asked a mounted policeman whether he knew a friend of his from Brooklyn. "He drives a horse, too," he added. The man from Syracuse had tickets for the show, but he wanted to see Kennedy. "All right," a policeman suggested, "you take this raincoat and hat, and I'll take your ticket and see the show." The same cop, when--in one of many false alarms--it appeared that the candidate was finally coming, anounced, "Any bomb-throwers...