Word: voting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...When Associated Press gave Michigan to Kennedy, CBS boosted the Senator's electoral-vote total to 285, more than enough to get him into the White House. But CBS was assuming that Illinois' 27 votes would go to Kennedy, and, hour by hour, his lead there was dwindling away until it stood at a mere 46,000. If Kennedy lost Illinois, his last big chance to clinch the election was California. But even there, with half of the state still to be tallied, Kennedy was just plugging along in front by 80,000. Dawn was beginning to break...
...Throughout the land, the black banner lines on the morning editions all read: KENNEDY! At 7 o'clock, John Kennedy crossed the 30 million mark-some 750,000 votes in the lead. Kennedy had 50.71% of the popular vote, Nixon 49.29%. It was the closest election since 1888, when Democrat Grover Cleveland edged Republican Benjamin Harrison in the popular vote but lost to him in the Electoral College...
...first Senate race between two women in U.S. history, Margaret Chase Smith, Maine's ranking vote-collector, easily defeated Lucia Marie Cormier, ex-schoolteacher and Democratic leader of the state legislature. Majestically ignoring Democrat Cormier after paying her one ladylike compliment early in the campaign, Republican Smith relied on the record she has embroidered since 1940, stitched an impressive 5-3 majority...
...Caleb Boggs pulled off one of the rare upsets of the 1960 Senate races by unseating conservative Democrat J. Allen Frear Jr., 57, a veteran of two undistinguished Senate terms. The only top-of-the-ticket Republican to win in Delaware, Boggs has long wooed Delaware's labor vote by urging establishment of a state department of labor, as a result probably came away with more union votes than Businessman Frear...
...Mexico, despite a presidential vote that seesawed back and forth, Democrat Clinton P. Anderson, 65, onetime Secretary of Agriculture under Harry Truman, handily beat out conservative Republican William Colwes to win his third term in the Senate...