Friday, Feb. 21, 1964
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National Minority Vote May Tell 1964 Election
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The votes of citizens of European, Latin American and Asiatic origins could become decisive in results of the presidential election next November and possibly in some primaries this spring.
Politicians in both the Democratic and Republican camps are alert to the importance of the so-called national minority groups, but they cannot gauge voters' preferences until the Republican presidential nominee is chosen at San Francisco in July. It is presumed that President Johnson will be nominated by the Democrats at Atlantic City, NJ., in August.
Political experts say some of the minority groups are adrift since the death of President John F. Kennedy. He was extremely popular with the Irish-American and Italian-American voters who have great influence on many of the big city election results.
THE 1964 VOTING intentions of the Polish-Americans, Hungarian-American and northwestern Scandinavian-American cannot be estimated at this early stage
The Mexican-Americans in Texas presumably will feel kindly toward President Johnson, but if Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona is nominated by the Republicans there will be a great fight for the Mexican-American vote in California and Arizona.
There now are nearly a half million Japanese-Americans in Hawaii and California who would have a considerable influence on the election result.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
TODAY Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd. Lenten Instruction at the 5 p.m. Mass. Services
Jewish Community Center Services,
7:30 p.m., 917 Highland Dr. Refreshments.
Episcopal evening prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Denforth.
SATURDAY
Kansas Liahona Conference, 10 a.m.
RLDS Church, 1900 University Dr. "Miracle of Meeting"—Paul Edwards, Barbara and Bill Higdon.
SUNDAY
Catholic Masses, 8 a.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, Philadelphia Rd. 9-30 and 11 Chapel Theater.
a.m.
Oread Friends Meeting, 10:30 a.m.
Dantonfors, Welsone - Quaker
for worship.
SUA' Chess Club, 2 p.m. Kansas Union,
Kansas Liahona Conference, p.m.
RLDEs, Dr. Edwards, Dr. W.
DDEs of Meeting—Paul Edwards,
Barbara and Bill Higdon.
Newman Club. 6:30 p.m. Forum Room, Kansas Union. Panel Discussion in hon'r Terry, Cardinal Newman Week. Carole Steary, Steve Perry, and Thomas Kukar will discuss: "Newman, Infallibility, and the Vatican Council" with Anand Chitnis as panel moderator. All are welcome to attend.
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Persons of French-Canadian origin are numerous in New England and could decide close elections in several states there.
ACCORDING TO THE 1960 national census, there were 33,078,000 persons of foreign white stock in this country. Of these 9,254,000 were born in other countries and 23,784,000 were born in the United States from one or both foreign parents.
In 1960 both the Democratic and Republican parties made systematic appeals to this sector of the population on the presumption—difficult to document—that about 20 million of them were eligible voters.
The relatively large national groups are Italian, German, Canadian, British, Polish, Russian, Irish and Mexican.
The presidential election is not determined by the total popular vote of all states but by the sum of the presidential electors chosen in each state. Consequently the swing of a few votes in one state often decides how the state's total electoral vote will be cast. That is why the presidential nominees
and the platforms of both parties find it expedient to make special appeals to voters in the various nationalities groups.
PARTISAN STRIFE FOR the groups became a built-in feature of presidential campaigns after World War I because the national immigration law was based on rigid immigration quotas which were determined proportionately by the national origins of the population.
Because many of the groups were anxious for larger immigration from their mother countries, their voting tendencies were often influenced by a presidential candidate's attitude toward liberalizing or tightening the immigration laws.
President Johnson has urged congress to relax immigration curbs.
IN THE GREAT economic depression of the early 1930's, many national groups were hit hard by unemployment. Franklin D. Roosevelt emerged as their chosen leader and this helped him to victory in four presidential elections.
After World War II, as the East-West cold war developed, political strategists believed many of the larger groups were chiefly concerned about the fate of the central European satellites of the Soviet Union, Hence, U.S. policies affecting Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia figured in the presidential campaigns. But since the issues were never sharply defined, it was not possible to measure the effectiveness of such partisan strategy.
Experts surmise that this year civil rights for the Negroes may become the great issue. They think this may confuse some of the minority groups. The groups are numerous in industrial centers where there has been a large infuix of Negroes, thus causing competition among workers for job opportunities.
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