Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galvanic Effect. Despite the fact that L.B.J. was a write-in candidate while his challenger's name was printed on the ballot, the narrowness of the President's lead amounted in all but figures to a victory for McCarthy. "I think I can get the nomination," the Senator said later. "I'm ahead now. There's no point in being anything but optimistic." His showing had a galvanic effect, particularly on the legions of enthusiastic students who poured into New Hampshire to help him (see box opposite). Outside his once moribund New York offices appeared...
...tangible and immediate than their predecessors in the South. In an era when many younger Americans are turning away from involvement in the democratic process, by dropping out either to psychedelia or to the nihilism of the New Left, the cool, crisply executed crusade of Gene McCarthy's "ballot children" provided heartening evidence that the generation gap is bridgeable-politically, at least...
...stand-in would oppose Eugene McCarthy in the April 30 presidential primary. Not only is the Massachusetts party organization confused and bitter as a result, but under the terms of a new state law, Senator McCarthy is also guaranteed all Massachusetts' 72 delegate votes on the first ballot at the convention...
...wishing to disturb the fiction that he has not yet decided to run again, Johnson refused to declare for the Massachusetts primary. It might have been best for all the Democrats concerned if Senator Teddy Kennedy, a putative Administration supporter, had put his name on the ballot to keep the state's delegation theoretically uncommitted at the convention, but Teddy gingerly refused. House Speaker John McCormack, 76, also demurred. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, a Springfield native, volunteered to quit his Washington post and run as a standin, but Johnson vetoed the idea, as well as the proposal...
...well. In his home state, McCarthy surprisingly was assured of 16 of Minnesota's 62 Democratic delegates during party precinct caucuses. In California, McCarthy partisans held midnight-to-dawn petition parties to sign on voters to validate his position on the state's June 4 primary ballot. Working all night, his supporters collected more than 28,000 signatures. Being first in with their petitions, they gained the top spot on the ballot for McCarthy-a considerable psychological advantage, since Johnson will be represented in California's primary by a standin, State Attorney General Tom Lynch...