Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Thomas E. Dewey (at Albany) : "I was quite surprised by the very low vote. It looks as though two or three million Republicans stayed home, out of overconfidence. That one fact stands out from the returns...
...facts which had been almost completely overlooked before the election now stood out like very sore thumbs: 1) labor voted in droves against the Taft-Hartley law and worked quietly but feverishly to sell the Democratic ticket to everyone in sight; 2) many farmers, who had been expected to vote Republican as usual, voted for Harry Truman instead. Between them they caught the Republicans in an implacable crossfire...
Thus, on Election Day, thousands of farmers decided either to vote Democratic or to stay home. In the normally Republican counties of rural Illinois, the vote fell 150,000 below 1944, 400,000 below 1940. In Indiana, rural returns almost upset Dewey's earlier lead. In Iowa, the farmers assured Harry Truman's victory...
...bandwagon pressure of the public-opinion polls, which encouraged many waverers to vote for Underdog Truman just to slow up the expected Dewey landslide, and caused many overconfident Republicans to stay away from the polls entirely...
...impact of the candidates themselves, which stirred many to vote for Harry Truman's fighting campaign, and sent others to the polls in revolt against the lofty Dewey platitudes...