Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Law School graduate, Higgs estimated that "in a secret ballot, 80 or 90 per cent of the Ole Miss faculty would vote to admit Meredith and they'd be glad to have him." Higgs said that while most of the students were against Meredith's admission, they would prefer it to keeping him out at the cost of bloody riots or closing the university...
...took Stuart Hughes 72,514 votes to enter the senatorial lists. A State elections law of 1950 guarantees two minor parties a place on the ballot if in the three previous gubernatorial elections their candidates polled one tenth of one per cent of the votes cast. The beneficiaries of this system are Lawrence Gilfedder an intent, wiry worker from the industrial suburb of Watertown, who is running on the Socialist Labor Party ticket, and the Rev. Mark Shaw, a white-haired clergyman from Melrose, who is representing the Prohibition Party...
...simply wanted to ride with a winner. Teddy thought like a winner, talked like a winner, and acted like a winner. He urged delegates to vote for him and thereby "do yourself a favor." The delegates did, and the convention was no contest: Teddy won on the first ballot...
...reply. Lodge said he was getting no help from his father, pointed out that "if anything, I come from a dead dynasty." At the G.O.P.'s convention, Lodge won the party's endorsement on the first ballot. Campaigning against Curtis in last week's primary, Lodge barnstormed Massachusetts in a three-bus caravan, won by a vote...
...Embarrassment. But as the Democrats convened in Syracuse, it became painfully evident that Morgenthau still needed a large vote bloc to win the nomination on an early ballot. And the most swingable bloc belonged to U.S. Representative Charles Buckley, the boss of The Bronx. This was downright embarrassing : after all, Bob Wagner had won reelection in 1961 on his promise to oust all of New York City's borough bosses, and of these Buckley was the sole survivor...