Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whigs and the Democrats took their place. Splinter parties were formed on such frenetic issues as a fanatical prejudice against Masons (the Anti-Masons), or a dislike for foreign-born citizens (the Americans or "Know-Nothings," who carried six states in 1854, captured 22% of the popular vote in 1856 for Millard Fillmore). In 1844, the anti-slavery Liberty Party, with a piddling 62,300 votes, drew enough Whig support in New York to swing the state and the presidency to Democrat James Polk. Four years later, the Free Soil Party did the same thing for Whig Zachary Taylor...
...resolution not to seek a third term, unlimbered his big stick and set out after the scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked away with 435 electoral votes...
Shrewd Boss Jake Arvey had wanted to line up a more seasoned vote-getting combination. But Senator Scott Lucas had refused to run for the governorship; as the Senate's only Midwestern Democrat, he thought he could do his party more good in Washington. Chicago's able Businessman-Mayor Martin Kennelly had also turned down the governorship post...
...giving comfort to the enemy! . . . Your brother is one of the principal contenders for the office of President. Yet today, by your vote, you will elect as mayor one of the foremost supporters in this community of the Roosevelt New Deal machine...
...proposal around which a small hurricane of opposition is being created occupied a rather secondary position in the speech, and constitute the position at which it is most vulnerable to attack as being a political instrument. But if the $40 tax cut is intended to be a vote-attracting mechanism, it also provides a means by which the Democrats can oppose the type of tax cuts advocated by the Republicans and at the same time avoid being put in the position of opposing tax cuts of any kind...