Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic Credentials Committee late last month, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Hubert Humphrey's agents pushed through an after-the-fact change in the rules, parceling out the California delegation proportionately-a move that threatened to cost McGovern 151 delegates and prevent his victory on the first ballot...
...party president and Premier, and the L.D.P.'s brusque rejection of his protege at a convention in downtown Tokyo's big Hibiya Hall last week was the final shokku. Sato nearly wept as Fukuda was trounced by the upstart millionaire, 282 to 190, in a second-ballot runoff...
...campaign aide Pierre Salinger who admitted that there might be problems if a majority of 1509 was to decide the California challenge, but there would be none with a 1433 figure. Either way, he was still talking confidently. "I don't share the general feeling that it's first ballot or nothing," he said...
Charisma. The trip and the big suites are no longer necessary for most of the contenders; the Doral is where the action will be. McGovern sweeps into Miami Beach counting on a first-ballot nomination, capping one of the most extraordinary success sagas in U.S. politics. The first to declare for the nomination, he was dismissed as a one-issue candidate, lacking charisma or recognition, a good Senator about to enact the Peter Principle by reaching for a role beyond him. But he had helped write the rules for the nominating process, and his young cadres knew...
Pledged to Shirley Chisholm, Betty Ann Cook won in a runoff because her supporters stayed around for the third ballot while more conservative white voters drifted home after the second ballot. The entire campaign cost her $40-including the price of a couple of pizzas for her husband and a college friend who served as her campaign manager...