Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller Problems. If many key Republicans were piqued at Goldwater for blasting Nixon, even more were angered at Rockefeller for failing to turn the tide in make-or-break New York, where a 1956 Eisenhower plurality of 1,600,000 votes ebbed to a 1960 Nixon deficit of 400,000. "There is a feeling that the best effort was not put out here," said a top New York Republican who is no friend of Rockefeller's. "Nelson will have one helluva time getting re-elected Governor in 1962." The Rockefeller rebuttal: he had given 400 enthusiastic speeches for Nixon...
...Roosevelt's day, ethnic, racial and religious minorities once again voted heavily Democratic. It was also in the cities that Kennedy's personality caught on most decisively. There were strong indications that Eisenhower, had he started campaigning three weeks before Election Day, might have stemmed the tide: his Cleveland appearance was almost certainly a major factor in saving Ohio for Nixon...
...Riding a Tide. Nixon made up for lost TV time as he pushed his rejuvenated campaign through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, South Carolina, Texas...
...three electoral votes, but to keep his acceptance-speech promise to campaign in all 50 states. In Wyoming, to keep this promise, the pilot of his chartered Boeing 707 had to land in a snowstorm. Nixon, buoyed by Ike's support, told-his audiences that he felt a "tide"' running in his direction, promised "one of the greatest victories in terms of electoral votes in the history of America.'' Increasing the cutting edge of his adjectives, he punched hard at Kennedy as a "medicine man" and "Jumping Jack," accusing him of making "vicious statements" and telling...
Kennedy, he declared, is far from a shoo-in at this time, and despite the rising tide of the Democratic campaign the results of the election are still in question...