Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House because they had broken the Democratic stranglehold in the big cities; they had captured the Senate because they had made a clean sweep of six seats in the West and Northwest, once deep-dyed New Deal. Above all, they had won back a sizable batch of the independent vote...
Henry Wallace: "It was a light vote." (He was wrong. The vote: 33,000,000- 6,000,000 more than in the last off-year election...
Jack Kroll, national director of C.I.O.P.A.C.: "It was a negative vote...
...anonymous Chicago Democratic precinct captain: "It was them bastards that shouldn't oughta vote which voted and beat...
...traditional scenes blossomed from coast to coast. In Boston it was suave, patrician Governor-elect Robert Fiske Bradford, who had walloped Democratic incumbent Maurice J. Tobin in a record off-year vote. As cameras clicked, Republican Bradford stepped up for the official accolade from his wife, to the evident de light of son Robert and daughter Rebecca...