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...shortage of able guards was offset somewhat by the presence of Wildcat Captain Arnold Whisnant, a center. But Whisnant was injured in last week's Furman game and will see no action today...
...political observers expect Governor Dever to carry the state by at least 150,000 votes for a third two-year term. Even the arch-Republican Boston Traveler, on the basis of its own polls, reluctantly admits that Dever will win almost every major city in the state, and thereby offset any Republican rural vote. But few hazard predictions on the Kennedy-Lodge contest. The youthful, touseled-haired Kennedy is a highly effective campaigner, but Lodge has shown surprising strength at unexpected moments. Kennedy has attached himself to Dever's ample coat-tails, and by this, expects to slip into office...
...drawing on any of the powerful (there are more than 750,000) Irish votes. This is because Kennedy, himself Irish, has campaigned strenuously in solid Irish wards, and in the House has supported such wierd items as the Fogarty Bill which demanded the unification of Ireland. To offset the Irish and the Taftites, Lodge is relying heavily on Italians and independent Democrats, besides Eisenhower supporters...
Fairchild makes a good, respectable impression, but lights no emotional fires. His biggest campaign asset is Wisconsin's Democratic Organizing Committee, which carried the state for Truman in 1948. A dedicated and well-organized group, the Committee can bring out the city precinct vote which might offset McCarthy's rural strength...
...emphasized that the Democrats are "hard pressed to offset the probable electoral effect" of these attacks. "The hammering of the communist issues is calcu- lated to weaken the loyalties of certain religious and nationalistic groups which are traditionally Democratic...