Word: canvasses
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bounty of 40? for every new voter. The goal is 40,000 voters, which would cost the union $16,000. On Election Day the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will pay thousands of members $25 each to take off from their jobs and flush out the vote in Michigan. The formula: canvass Democratic areas block by block, drive voters to the polls, pass out "idiot sheets" that tell how and for whom to pull the lever. When need be, the unionists also baby...
...daily newspapers responding to Editor & Publisher's questions, 433, or 54.1% with combined circulation of 10,680,988, are supporting Republican Richard Nixon. Backing Democrat John Kennedy are 125 dailies, or 15.6% of the total, with circulation of 2,372,160. A similar Editor & Publisher canvass in 1956 showed Republican Dwight Eisenhower supported by 59.46% of the daily newspapers against 17.21% for Democrat Adlai Stevenson...
...Gallup, perhaps the unkindest cuts of all came from some of his fellow pulse takers. Doorbell-ringing Pollster Sam Lubell wrote scornfully of "other polls" which "maintain that the presidential 'undecided' vote is as low as 6% of the total." In his own election canvass, said Lubell, he had found that no less than 18% of the electorate had yet to make up its mind about how to vote in November. And Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop devoted an entire column to criticizing Gallup's methods. "In the newspaper trade," wrote Alsop, "it is usually considered bad form...
...sign up with the Democrats. To handle this key job, Kennedy picked an old friend, New Jersey Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., 42, as the head of a nationwide organization of door-to-door volunteers. Said Thompson, after a fast trip to Hyannisport: "We're going to canvass every precinct." ¶The usual "independent volunteers" or ganization was set up, charged with luring not only independents and Republicans into the Kennedy camp, but also "dissident Democrats" - that is, Northern and Eastern Democrats who cannot stand Johnson, and Southern Democrats who quail at Jack. National Chairman: Denver Lawyer (and onetime University...
...L.B.J. any longer. The biggest sign that the South was flying apart came at the Governors' conference in Glacier National Park, when Texas Governor Price Daniel tried to call a meeting of Southern Governors at which, presumably, the Southerners would declare their eternal support for Johnson. In a canvass of the Governors, Daniel got a couple of shockers: Mississippi's diehard segregationist Ross Barnett refused to guarantee his delegation for Johnson, because Johnson had pushed through the 1960 civil rights bill. Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins advised Daniel that his state was not solid for Lyndon; North...