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Landslide Lyndon. The two candidates in the 1948 U.S. Senate race in Texas were then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson and then-Governor Coke Stevenson. After the statewide election, early indications were that Johnson lost. Nearly a week after the election, it was discovered that at the very last minute, 203 people in Alice, Texas, Precinct 13, voted in the exact order their names appeared on the tax rolls. Incredibly, 202 of those newly found votes were for Johnson. Search the Internet and find out who won that statewide election and by how many votes. Explain why the later-President Johnson earned the nickname “Landslide Lyndon.”
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