Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...59th precinct of the 13th ward is accurately known as "Little Lithuania." Its voters know what it means to be ground under the heel of Russian oppression. Ike won the precinct by 53.3% in 1952. This time he took...
...70th precinct of the 13th ward is heavily Italian. Ike came from 44.4% in 1952 to 53-3% this year...
Familiar Chant. In Oregon this year, Democratic registration has moved ahead of Republican. Wayne Morse has strong financial support from COPE, the political arm of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and labor, as rarely before, is organizing the precincts on Morse's behalf. Moreover, Democrat Morse has a break on the issues: 1) because of the nationwide slowdown in home building, Oregon's billion-dollar lumber business has slacked off; 2) because of lower farm prices, Eastern Oregon's big-business wheat farmers are pouting; and 3) even though private enterprise already is hard at work on a power...
Increasingly and almost imperceptibly Ike has become and is becoming less the briefed and more the briefer; always he is developing new interests, new knowledge, about the kaleidoscopic facets of his job. As of now, for example, he is fascinated by the electoral mechanism of democracy at the precinct level; as of now, Ike, aware that his party is as short on expounding its theory as it is long on pragmatic accomplishment, is prodding and stimulating the thinkers of dynamic conservatism, specifically including himself. "It is what I do," he says of all his energies and activities. "I always...
...employed, and this fact doubtless accounts in part for a Republican bias in the poll's 1952 returns. According to the voters' claims, those polled went 389 for Eisenhower, and 218 for Stevenson. This would give Eisenhower 64.1 per cent, although he actually drew only 56.1 percent in the precinct. Another explanation for this discrepancy, shown in some previous national polls, is a tendency to claim to have voted with the winning side on the part of people whose memories are hazy, or who actually did not vote...