Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other circumstances under which a state's electoral vote can be but seldom is split are: 1) when two weak parties join forces and present a fusion ticket sharing the electoral votes according to a predetermined arrangement, 2) When enough voters go out of their way to "scratch" the names of individual electors...
Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, who resigned as leader of the North Carolina Democracy and said he would vote for neither Smith nor Hoover, last week openly joined the anti-Smith Democrats. He repeated the gist of his pre-nomination statements: "I am profoundly convinced that the election of Governor Smith would be unfortunate alike to the party and the country." Reason: Tammany...
...York State Federation of Labor, by viva voce vote (about 395 to 5). Reason: "Tested and proved champion of liberty, equality and justice...
...Except in 1912, when Wilson got a plurality of 2,600 over Roosevelt. The Roosevelt vote plus the Taft vote was some 24,000 greater than the Wilson vote...
...harrowing time for the Nominee because the committee was debating, and soon would vote, whether or not he was to continue as a Nominee for the Presidency, whether or not he was to be withdrawn and returned to private life as just plain William F. ("Bill") Varney of Rockville Centre, Long Island...