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Florida Beachhead. A Slim One for Adlai
Collier, Bert | June 9, 1956 issue

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Returns from Florida's Presidential preferential primary failed to settle anything. Supporters of both Democratic hopefuls wound up with a feeling of frustration. After an all-out campaign in which both Adlai Stevenson and Senator Estes Kefauver hit the hustings with the ardor of candidates for precinct committeemen, they came out virtually even. Winner Stevenson polled only 51 per cent of the vote in the closest preferential primary in Florida's history. Although Stevenson has twenty-two of the state's twenty-eight electoral votes in his pocket, the narrow popular-vote margin was a bitter disappointment to his supporters.

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ELECTIONS -- United States; PRIMARIES; STEVENSON, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965; KEFAUVER, Estes; LEGISLATORS -- United States; FLORIDA; UNITED States
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