Politics Without Power: The National Party Committees by Bernard C. Hennessy

Author:Bernard C. Hennessy [Hennessy, Bernard C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Parties, Political Science, Political Process, General
ISBN: 9781351498180
Google: XyEuDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 35865535
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

* * *

1 Washington Post, June 26, 1963; Washington Star, June 23, 1963.

2 In 1960 the Chicago citizens committee was promised five hundred tickets and was given another two hundred-fifty when fund-raising difficulties were encountered.

3 See White, op. cit., and Tillett, op. cit.

4 See, e.g., Austin G. Wehrwein, "G.O.P. Convention Still Lingers On,"

5 Hawaii's three electoral votes, then in doubt, subsequently were cast for Kennedy by a margin of 115 out of the 184,705 votes cast in the Islands.

6 Republican National Committee, "The 1960 Elections" (April 1961), p. 1.

7 Ibid.; the states were Hawaii, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Nevada.

8 Washington Post, December 9, 1960.

9 Ibid., December 12, 1960. Morton's fatalism is significant. It may be that the distortive element built into the Electoral College system is beneficial in that, in close elections like that of 1960 and probably many to come, the gap between winner and loser in the electoral vote is sufficiently great that little incentive exists to a Hayes-Tilden type Donnybrook in an effort to reverse the result, as might be the case were the popular vote directly determinative and as indecisive as it was in 1960.

10 Sunday Star, April 9, 1961; Washington Post, April 24, 1961.

11 Ibid., January 2, 1961.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.