Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pictured the Democrats, Northern style, as a party that wants "to progress through spending billions more of the people's money, through increasing the functions, the size and the power of the Federal Government." Echoing a Southern threat, he predicted that "millions of Democrats will vote for our ticket this year, not because they are deserting their party but because their party deserted their principles." Only once were his remarks met with silence. Bringing up civil rights, Nixon called it a national problem, said simply, "You know my convictions on that issue...
Nixon is also helped by the fact that no sizable states'-rights third-party move has developed so far in the South. In past campaigns, Southerners mad at their party voted the third ticket, e.g., in 1948 when the Dixiecrats took 39 Southern electoral votes from Harry Truman (see map). This time, protest votes will likely go Republican...
...many areas, a feminine candidate is a required entry on any well-balanced ticket, and across the land more bonnets than ever before are in the political ring. Three women are running for the U.S. Senate, 26 for the House of Representatives, more than a hundred for legislatures and other statewide offices, thousands for county and local political jobs that range from board of education to justice of the peace. The nation's biggest, most eyecatching feminine contest is building up in Maine, where two women are matched, for the first time ever, in a race...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller offered up his first-born son to seal his new-found enthusiasm for Dick Nixon; Spanish-speaking Rodman, 28, will head a drive to turn out New York's Puerto Rican and Negro votes for the G.O.P. ticket...
...Wallaces Farmer, polling rural Iowa, found 49% leaning toward the Nixon-Lodge ticket, 32% toward Kennedy-Johnson, and 19% still on the fence. Meanwhile, at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, the Prairie Farmer took its time-tested sampling of visiting farmers, reported 1,404 for Nixon, 784 for Kennedy, 206 undecided...