The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-11
Politics
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\ IhsreT he much sleep lost by nliose who have a passion for analyz- me election figures until they've discovered just why the vote here Hn Connecticut varied so much from Gown to town and from candidate to candidate. For instance, why, did agew Britain run up a $500 majority for Roosevelt, with the Italian and Polish districts in that city, show ing the way in the procession, where as quite the opposite was true Tn pkher communities where there were similar large Polish and Italian vot- ! ing groups? The simplest explana- ton of the local vote would be to say that 5000 people who voted Tor Roosevelt in 1940 didn't vote for him this year, but switched to Dewey, for that's just the way the totals add aIp. There were 25,000 FDR votes an 40 and 16,OOO for Willkie, but last Tuesday 1t was 22,000, FDR, and 19,- DOO. Dewey. What though, of the 5000 new registrants this year and of the missing service votes? Only 2OOO servicemen voted out of tive times as many eligible to vote. An- swer these and other questions and you rate with the political experts.
 Of one thing there can be no
 doubt and that's the fact that ex- Governor Robert A. Hurley failed
 to add strength to the Demo-
 cratic ticket. Perhaps it was too
 much to expect him to overcome
 the personal following that quite
 evidently Gov. Raymond E. Bald
 win has built up in the last two
 years. Perhaps he never was able
 to overcome the feeling that arose after he switched his nomination
 aguiratiOns from the SenatOrship
 to the gOvernOrship last summer.
 At any rate he was far off the
 mace Tuesday and only a tremen- dous landslide, such as that of
 I936. could have aided him this
 trip. The terrific cutting he took
 here i'm Waterbury was no eXcep-
 ton to the general rule.
 The cold figures show that even in Hartford, where the Democrats boosted Roosevelt's stock by 2o,- 500 majority, ex-Governor Hurley gained only a 15,50O lead over his opponent. The big Roosevelt vote in New Britain didn't extend to the gubernatorial candidate on the Democratic ticket, for here his mar gin of victory was only 349. Bridge ports winning score of 14,00O was halved. Down in Stamford where Roosevelt had a narrow winning margin, Gov Baldwin carried the town, but Clare Boothe Luce lost 1t to Miss Connors. And down in Nor walk. Brien McMahon'S home town he lost it by about 600 votes, whereas Gov. Baldwin defeated Hurley here by 1900. All of which may not prove too much, but 1t does indicate how widespread was the opposition to tho Hurley candidacy.
 Ss Now what about Peter Higgins?
 There's no question but what he
 ran behind the Roosevelt vote
 throughout the entire district,
 but not as far in Litchfield cOuny
 as in New Haven. He was more
 than 300 in back of Roosevelt here in Waterbury, but by the
 same token Cong. Joseph Talbot
 was ahead of Dewey. And the
 same was true i'm AnsOnia and
 Naugatuck, as we'll as TOrringtOn
 i'm LitchfieId county. Neither can-
 Glidate could carry his own town,
 which is moro proof that Tues
 days voters were not party minded
 to any degree.
 For the first time in Connecticut history there will be two women rep resenting the state in Congress. In addition to Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce from Fairfield County there1l be Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse the former Secretary of State and head of the Federated Democratic Wo- mems Clubs. It will be case of one Republican and one Democrat, but only Mrs. Luce knows how close 1t came to being two Democrats. May be Miss Margaret Connors today is regretting the fact that she allowed her contest to be made national issue instead of just confined to the Fourth District. That might ex- plain why she lost out up-district. Vice-President Wallace's recent transforming trip through the dis trict wasn't too well-advised in the minds of many state Democrats. Cerainly the Hyde Park remark of the President Tuesday night, a bit premature it later proved, relative to Mrs. Luce's defeat being a good thing for the nation showed how La Luce can get into peoples hair, even the thinning locks of a Presi- dent.
 The makeup of the State Sem
 ate next year indicates that Gov.
 Baldwin shouldn't have too much
 trouble in securing support for
 any worthwhile program he may
 have in mind, including all sorts
 ef appointments. The Democratic
 majority shapes up as a group of
 liberals who won't be as much