Word: voting
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...Maine Goes, So Goes Vermont.") This year, scandal in the State House involving Republican Controller William A. Runnells spread a haze in the sky. The personal popularity of Louis Jefferson Brann, former Democratic Governor, candidate for U. S. Senator, also made Republican leaders reluctant to have the Maine vote used as an augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched in to the State two days before the election and proclaimed: "What you do or do not do on Monday will profoundly affect...
According to the Department of Agriculture's Economic Adviser Louis Bean, if the Democrats poll 33% of the vote in Maine they are likely to carry the nation. According to Dr. George Gallup, Democrats have to poll 38% in Maine to have a chance to carry the country...
...vote: for Republican Brewster 59%; for Democrat Brann 41%; for Republican Sewall 64% ; for Democrat Redman...
...Mexico. Then, in ringing defiance, he gave his followers their cue: "The people of Mexico are sick of racketeer government-sick to the point of revolt. . . . At the proper time I will return to Mexico and claim the high office to which I am entitled by an overwhelming vote of the people...