Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neill is pledged by law to McCarthy for the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention because of the Minnesota Democrat's victory in the April Massachusetts presidential primary. The Bay State Congressman, a member of the powerful House Rules Committee and an eight-term incumbent, is the first major Massachusetts Democratic office-holder to endorse McCarthy...
...creating the maximum amount of drama out of a situation which would be rather undramatic without their help. Every day they poll the delegates and report the fluctuations--a few votes up for one candidate here, a few down for another there, will Nixon win on the first ballot...
...only in the basement of the Fontainebleau that all these decisions are collated and sent out over the wires as comprehensive polls of the delegates. This is the quintessence of the pre-vote period of the convention--predicting who is going to win, and on what ballot...
...everywhere people ask: Who's going to win? What will Gov. Rhodes do with his Ohio delegation? Who will the winner pick for his Vice Presidential candidate? Does Nixon really have it sewed up on the first ballot...
Ignoring for a moment the plethora of polls and columnists' guesses, the chances of the delegates ever getting around to a second ballot are historically unlikely. The last time it happened at a GOP convention was 1948, when it took Governor Dewey three ballots to defeat Harold Stassen and Robert A. Taft...