Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was the last of it-until he leaves the Governorship on Jan. 1. He took satisfaction from his popular vote. "There's only one man in this country who got more votes for the Presidency than I did this year...
Late returns dwindled and the Smith vote of 14,626,823 did not reach the Harding and Coolidge totals of 16,152,200 and 15,725,016, respectively. But Smith received 5,479,450 more than any Democrat had ever received and there were other things to feel good about...
Making certainty doubly certain that Dryness was, at least outwardly, more ascendant than ever, were the Congressional returns. As every one knows, few Congressmen vote as they drink. Outspokenly wet Senators are especially rare. Next year they will be rarer. The two wettest-Maryland's Bruce and New Jersey's Edwards-lost their seats. So did Rhode Island's Gerry, Delaware's Bayard. Missouri's vindictive Reed retires and Missouri's Roscoe C. Patterson will...
Alfred E. Smith carried Massachusetts because, among other reasons, the state is overwhelmingly opposed to prohibition. In response to a question on the ballots, 33 out of 40 senatorial districts instructed their senators to vote for a resolution requesting Congress to take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. A wet vote of 619,000 glaringly opposed a dry vote of 347,910. Only three districts, rural and suburban, showed dry majorities. In the other four districts the question did not appear on the ballot...
...certain Democrat was responsible at once for the hugeness of the Democracy's popular vote and for the Democracy's internal division. He was the strongest Democrat. He had demonstrated, apparently, that no living Democrat could have won this year. Now he was leaving politics (see p. 8), and the question was: to what, if anything, could the Democracy look forward...