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...enough, he doesn't need to speak above a whisper to be heard the length (96 miles) and breadth (35 miles) of Delaware. It's the handshakes that count. John Williams shook hands hard and beat his lawyer, Senator James Tunnell, by 12,000 votes, a respectable margin in Delaware...
...Republican Party is the healthier in Iowa. Bob Taft's supporters, bitter and unwilling to work at first, have now turned to. The Democratic organization is weak. Senator Gillette, who helped pull Truman through in 1948 (Gillette's margin: 162,448; Truman's: 28,362), has not been working for the national ticket...
Maryland is historically one of the closest states in presidential elections. Three times since 1900 the presidential margin there has been less than 2%. In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt carried the state only 51 votes ahead of Alton B. Parker; in 1908, William Howard Taft got just 605 more votes than William Jennings Bryan; in 1948, Tom Dewey squeaked past Harry Truman...
...methods have worked well. In1950's off-year election, Gallup was able to narrow his margin of error (average: 3.4%) down to less than 1%: the last poll indicated 51% for the Democrats, and they got 50.3%. In this year's New Hampshire primary, the Crossley poll, using similar techniques, gave Eisenhower a 51.7% majority...
...election were held today. But Crossley's figures are based on the assumption that only 56% of the eligible Democrats will vote v. 72% of the Republicans. He concedes, however, that if everybody who is eligible to vote did so, Stevenson would win by a narrow margin...