Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that meeting in the Mormon Tabernacle. It holds 11,000 people and there were about 12,500 at the place, and when I got through with them I don't think there was a Republican in Utah but what didn't feel like he wanted to vote the Democratic ticket...
...earlier supporters. He had lost whatever labor backing he had once had by heading the get-tough-with-labor wing in the Taft-Hartley debates. He had baffled the farmers by plying them with abstruse economic theories. He had alienated many a Republican regular by jumping party lines to vote for Franklin Roosevelt...
...demagogic, 73-year-old Matt Neely, West Virginia's one-man office-holding machine (five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...
...about the Negro's right to an education, a job? As far as Strom Thurmond was concerned, he would not deny the Negro the right to an education and a job. Thurmond had to accept a federal judge's decision that the Negro had a right to vote; 35,000 voted in the South Carolina primaries this year. The so-called Southern "liberal" went further: he would and did encourage the Negro to better education, to enfranchisement as a self-respecting citizen...
Measure of Emotions. Thurmond claimed that he might win as many as 140 electoral votes. This was grossly exaggerated and he knew it. By the best expert reckoning, he would not get North Carolina, which was cool to all the candidates and coolest to a third-party candidate. He would not get Arkansas, although he might have enough strength there to spoil an outside chance for Dewey. He would not win Florida, Kentucky or Virginia, but he might get just enough there to give those states to Dewey. He was a fair bet to win Georgia and Louisiana, a very...