Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohio (25): The downstate Republican tide is ebbing. Depressed Ohio River towns bulge with poor West Virginians and Kentuckians, and the Democrats are hotly courting them. Scripps-Howard polls gave Nixon only 46% of the straws in Cincinnati-which went 62½% for Ike in 1956. The G.O.P. counts on carrying the farm counties, along with Dayton and Columbus. The rising Democratic tide in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and other major industrial areas (in Youngstown, 30,000 of the 55,000 steelworkers are unemployed) should easily tip the balance. KENNEDY...
...Kennedy's avowed economic policies, he said. "He's been up three times," cried Nixon to the baseball-conscious Pittsburghers. "He's struck out three times, and now he wants to be the cleanup hitter!" The campaign, said he, "is beginning to run in a great tide in our direction...
French President De Gaulle urged recently that his countrymen confront the Algerian dilemma by "looking straight at the problems." But a growing number of Frenchmen were looking apprehensively over their shoulders at M. De Gaulle. The rising tide of suspicion that the government is threatening civil liberties has rocked the nation, which for two years had slept in the absence of any real political life...
...possible that their vote could be heavily influenced by the President. The degree to which the Eisenhower many will rub off on Nixon, and the eventual effort of the religious issue are the two great in ponderables of this campaign. Together, they could well stem the Kennedy tide that new paper men around the country have been porting. On the other hand, the religious issue cuts both ways, and if anti-Catholic as managers to repel enough Catholics as anti-bigots, that plus the general majority superior organizational strength which Democrats enjoy could be enough to put Kennedy over...
...nation's heaviest concentration of population, in 1956 cast 3,200,000 votes-against 3,900,000 for the rest of the state. Thus the key figure is this: a Democrat must usually capture a 700,000-vote majority in the city to breast the upstate Republican tide. (Adlai Stevenson carried the city by a humiliatingly...