Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to pass on this sort of socialism in action. Result: 1) the CCF lost 16 seats in the house, slashing its total from 47 to 31 (Liberals picked up 15 seats for a total of 18, Tories one); 2) a drop from 53% to 47% of the popular vote; 3) defeat of the two cabinet ministers most directly concerned with the socialization projects. Even though the CCF was still in power, its prestige had been hard hit. Jeered the anti-socialist Regina Leader-Post: "Mr. Douglas has been given the benefit of the doubt...
Attitudes. Only 26.3% of the college graduates consider themselves Democrats, 38.3% Republicans, the rest independents. The college graduate was much more likely to vote in the last national election (78.9% did) than his non-college neighbor. And the chances are one in 20 that he ran for public office himself in the past four years...
...them "a lot" in their present occupation. If they had it to do over again, 83.5% would attend the same college, and only 2.1% would not go to college at all. But one in four wishes he had chosen another major field, and those who would do it differently vote three-to-two for more specific vocational training. The happiest profession: medicine (only 9.2% of the doctors have regrets...
Last week, after a ten-month investigation, a special committee of New York's City Council reported that Knickerbocker had indeed discriminated against Gurewitch. By a 16-0 vote, the City Council recommended that Knickerbocker be fired...
...Polls showed him winning a majority of the farm vote...