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...Winner Can Lose. Aside from the head-on clashes, there will be other Stevenson-Kefauver skirmishes that may take on some significance. In Oregon's May 18 primary, there will be a write-in campaign for both candidates. In New Jersey's primary on April 17, a slate of Kefauver delegates will be up against an uncommitted but Stevenson-leaning slate headed by Governor Robert Meyner. After what happened to Governor Freeman in Minnesota, Governor Meyner last week was sounding a little edgy...
Senator J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, was the first man ever to be elected to Congress by write-in votes against an opponent whose name was printed on the ballot. Thurmond stumped as a write-in because he was angry at the South Carolina Democratic Executive Committee for hand-picking a candidate (Edgar Brown) instead of holding a primary. In that campaign Thurmond promised the voters that, if elected, he would resign before the next regular primary to let them do the picking...
Anti-administration arguments, expected today on the House floor, will assert that the bill paves the way to universal military training. Thus far, UMT has never been able to proceed past debate. Lobby groups, including the National Council Against Conscription and the Methodist Church have been waging write-in battles with the Administration for months...
Salzburg was dropped last fall after much protest. Red Feather has been off the list since October, 1952. Since then the Red Feather has annually conducted a write-in campaign...
Until last week no write-in candidate had ever been elected to the U.S. Congress. Last week's write-in winner: J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 51, whom South Carolina sent to the Senate seat of the late Burnet R. Maybank...