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...this year we've had one traditional Catholic running for president for the Republican party for the first time, one African-American, and one Jewish American," said Buchanan, a Catholic. "And Senator D'Amato and his legal folks have tried to keep all three of us off the ballot in New York...
Tomorrow, Massachusetts will hold its Republican primary and we encourage the Harvard community to take the time to vote. Many of the primaries this election year are bitterly contested, and the Republican candidates may fight for the nomination all the way to San Diego. Every ballot has extra significance...
Voting is not merely a method of choosing our country's next leaders. Casting a ballot helps to build good citizenship. It helps to make Americans more aware of current political issues, and educates them in the principles of self-government. Harvard students should feel a special responsibility to vote. Our generation has too often been accused of being mired in angst and nihilism...
...their voters. Some delegates are theoretically free-lancers: Ohio's delegates must sign a pledge for their preferred contender, but party rules state that "they are not legally bound to vote for that candidate at the National Convention." Some states have rules that bind their delegates on the first ballot (such as Arizona), or the first and second ballot (South Carolina), or until the candidate dies or withdraws or releases his charges. Some states allow a delegate to break a pledge if, as in the case of Alabama, two-thirds of the delegation agree to follow suit. The array...
...some other candidates have turned to Pete Wilson to fill their delegate slates.Wilson has done his best to put his loyalists in those 165 slots. What that means is that delegates who are pledged to rivals could be backing Dole (or whomever Wilson prefers by then) on the first ballot at the Republican Convention in San Diego next August...