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...quantities of snazzy real estate, diamonds large enough to be used for fish-line sinkers, and any number of imaginatively colored limousines. In 1930 he decided, a couple of months before Election Day, to run for the governorship of Kansas (he promised a lake in each county), and his write-in campaign might well have succeeded had not the Republican and Democratic ballot counters joined hands against...
...heavy write-in vote which had been predicted for Rockefeller failed to materialize, and the New York Governor got only 2,745 handwritten ballots, leading Nixon's supporters to conclude that Rocky is no longer a threat...
...soft on Communism" by rabidly right-wing Governor Wesley Powell was denounced by Kennedy and sharply repudiated by Nixon. Its possible effects on the election were hard to discern. Some analysts claimed that the unprecedented turnout at the polls was a result; others saw the 2,196 Republican write-in votes for Kennedy as a protest against Powell. Nixon aides interpreted the Vice President's quick repudiation of Powell's reckless charge as a big help in dissociating their candidate from the right wing of the Republican Party. But when the results were in, Nixon still congratulated Powell...
...group hopes that the Rockefeller campaign will be revivified by write-in votes in the March 8 Presidential primary in New Hampshire. "We believe that many people are still interested in Rockefeller for president," asserted Scotch, acting president of the Write-In Rocky Club, an unofficial confederation of members at Yale, Wellesley, Radcliffe, and Harvard...
Labelling the choices listed on the questionnaire as "absolutely ridiculous," several other 'Cliffies wrote in a third alternative--extending the closing hour till 11 with reserve books to circulate at 4:30. Most of the write-in voters questioned the "financial reasons" which the poll cited as precluding this possibility...