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William O. Douglas' showing was also unexpected, since he was not even on the ballot. After protesting this omission, the University Douglas-for-President Clup conducted a vigorous write-in campaign...
Pundits making their way through Massachusetts last week were cautious about predictions. But they thought that Ike would win both the write-in preference and a majority of the delegates, thus keeping landlocked Bob Taft still blocked off from the fertile coast...
Douglas supporters have requested the H.L.U. to add a write-in space for their candidate to the ballot list...
...more Republicans for last week's presidential primary than had voted in an Illinois election since 1932. In traditionally Democratic Cook County-Chicago and suburbs-Republicans cast more ballots than Democrats. Taft rolled up 862,000 votes, rolled over Harold Stassen (145,600) and an ill-conceived Eisenhower write-in movement (135,300) sponsored by the Chicago Sun-Times. He lost only one delegate to Eisenhower, and came out of Illinois with the other 59 in the bag-the largest single bundle thus far in the campaign...
...root. "It is no easy task to defeat a popular wartime general in successive elections [i.e., Nebraska and Illinois]. In the fourth largest state of the Union I have carried the state by a smashing margin of six to one against him . . . The Illinois results finally eradicate the Minnesota write-in results [Ike 107,000, Taft 24,000] ballyhooed so vigorously by the internationalist press...