Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After analyzing election returns of the last 100 years, Bean concludes that 1946 was the statistical rock-bottom vote for the Democratic Party, below which the Democrats will not sink. In fact he adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative...
Although he bases his work on statistics, Bean does not lose his grip on the realities of U.S. politics. He admits that a Democratic victory could be averted if a Third Party took four to eight percent of the popular vote away from the Democrats without cutting the G.O.P. vote, or if a depression set in strongly by Nov. 2. He hints at the possibility of a Republican victory with something less than a majority of the popular vote--an alternative as yet unvoiced in the press. But with the other hand he holds out the key to a possible...
Ring doorbells and get out the vote is his advice to the Democrats, 59 million votes, he says, is about what the vote goal should be if potentialities are seen in historical perspective. More voters means more voters from the lower income groups which means more votes for the Democratic Party. That logic seems to be an axiom in Democratic Party circles nowadays, although it has been statistically checked only in Santa Cruz County in California by a couple of Stanford professors...
Student residents of eight states cannot vote in the coming Presidential elections unless they go back home on November 2. Men from 20 other states cannot vote if they fail to register in their home state before the deadline...
Under "Discipline" they have something called "Dismissal." That's pretty bad. You get booted out by the vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and its not likely that you ever get back...