Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Goldwater: "It's just what I've been saying. We cannot win as a dime-store copy of the opposition's platform. We offered voters insufficient choice with a me-too candidate. We must be different. My guess is that 80% of the state chairmen, the precinct committeemen, the workers think it is true. Everyone recognizes it except the party leadership...
...slight leads in Tennessee and Kentucky. The Democrats claimed North Carolina and South Carolina-two states that Nixon had been counting in his column-and signs were mounting that Southern Negroes, who had been strong for Ike, were swinging back to the Democrats (in Durham, N.C., one bellwether Negro precinct that went 66% for Ike in 1956 went 66% for Kennedy...
Turning out huge votes, many northern big cities polled mounting Kennedy margins. Jubilant Pennsylvania Democrats saw victory by 300,000 in Philadelphia. In steelmaking Bethlehem, a precinct that had voted for the winner in every 20th-century election went for Kennedy, 576-380, and the news was flashed to Hyannisport by direct telephone wire. Kennedy was building toward a 600,000 lead in Chicago's Cook County-presumably more than enough to sew up the state. New York City was going predictably Democratic. And not even in upstate New York, where Republicans hoped to offset Kennedy's expected...
Nixon won Harry Truman's home precinct, but little else, Democratic winners in clean sweeps were Kennedy, Governor-elect John Dalton, re-elected Senator Edward Long, and House Parliamentarian Clarence Cannon...
Since then, Bagwell and his liberal followers have been toiling to modernize the G.O.P.'s machinery and philosophy. The liberal Republican chairman. 39-year-old Larry Lindemer, a trim Lansing lawyer who rose to power along with Bagwell, started a precinct-by-precinct vote analysis, replaced many social climbers with politically minded recruits, re-established G.O.P. outposts in the far corners of the state. Meanwhile, Bagwell has been hammering home his liberal philosophy...