Word: waferthin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult process of trying to pull the poles of the Democratic Party together, Stevenson was clearly having more success than Kefauver. He won a waferthin victory in a somewhat bored Florida (a margin of 12,000 votes in a total vote of 430,000), but it gave him 22 of Florida's delegates to the Democratic National Convention and left only six for Kefauver. With that momentum, Stevenson landed in California shaken, but on his feet...
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