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Even this list is challenged. The Associated Press poll of editors, released this week, says Rhode Island is a tossup. Seven states with 43 electoral votes can be listed as "sure" for Eisenhower. They...
...President Truman bows out of the race and Eisenhower should prove to be unavailable, Douglas feels the Democratic nomination would be a tossup between Tennessee's Senator Kefauver, whom he termed "very splendidly qualified for the Presidency," and Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. He himself reiterated his oft-stated lack of Presidential ambitions. "No man," he said, "has ever declined a job more frequently that has never been offered him than I have...
Newsmen thought it was a tossup which was colder-the six-above-zero dawns on Nevada's frozen mountainsides or the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC wouldn't even give reporters the time of day of an A-blast, or the day. So, for three weeks of icy daybreaks, almost 100 reporters clambered up the mountainsides and stood in five-inch snow, peering towards the test site at Frenchman's Flat, waiting for a blast. By last week, when the first big explosion finally came, one-third of the correspondents had given up in disgust. By week...
Nevertheless, Jeremiah calls the game a tossup. "This isn't one of my most outstanding teams," he says, "but it does hustle and plays with exceptional aggressivess...
...Georgia, the deadlock was between Truman and Thurmond. In Florida, the Dixiecrats might prove strong enough to swing the state from Truman to Dewey. In the other doubtful states it was still a Truman-Dewey tossup...