Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said. "We're in." The roll call told the story. As each delegation registered its declaration, Bobby Kennedy examined his lists. When Vermont was casting its vote, Bobby had already concluded that Wyoming's vote could put Jack over the top on the first ballot-without switches. Ted Kennedy edged down the crowded aisles and joined the Wyoming delegation. There, Delegate Dale Richardson penciled the tally, looked up and grinned. Rising, he shuffled excitedly down the rows of his group, shouting "Let's go! Let's go!" Though the delegation had decided to split their vote...
...Jersey Governor who is barred by law from a third term, insisted on running as a favorite son against the manifold pleas and pressures of the state's pro-Kennedy Democratic bosses. He thus won a niche-or, more correctly, a wall scratch-in history (41 first-ballot votes for Meyner), but lost his high hopes for a Cabinet job. "I want my 25 minutes on television," Meyner confessed in a moment of greater vanity than wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite son, who withdrew to support Kennedy...
Wave & the Rock. Johnson's high hope was that the dark horses. Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey and Adlai Stevenson, with some 200 first-ballot votes among them, could be persuaded to hold on. His other hope was to try to keep state Governors heading up uncommitted or favorite-son delegations from giving way to Kennedy on the first ballot. Johnson had his network of support, mostly congressional friends. He had his handful of devoted admirers. At one point. Colorado's ex-Senator Ed Johnson, who had been kept off the delegation by a Kennedy coup, shuffled...
...Judged against the pattern of both Democratic and Republican nominating conventions since 1928, Johnson's hope that the suspense would carry beyond the first ballot was pretty dim. In only four of the past 16 conventions did it take more than one ballot to nominate a presidential candidate (Roosevelt in 1932, four ballots; Willkie in 1940, six; Dewey in 1948, three; Stevenson in 1952, three...
...brought off the neat trick of turning feudal domain into political machine. When the British called elections last December, as a first step toward independence, the Sardauna stumped the walled cities of the north in a campaign that included such innovations as helicopters, skywriting and more than one stuffed ballot box. His party won 142 out of 312 seats in the federal Parliament. Already Premier of the Northern Region, he wants no national office, with feudal condescension describes the new federal Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, as "my deputy." But Sir Abubakar, who is British-educated and will...