Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's two opponents, Jackson and Gary Hart, saw the dissension over Lance as a last chance to pry away Mondale delegates and block a first-ballot victory. Hart's aides happily spread the word that some 50 delegates who had been unpledged or in Mondale's camp had expressed interest in voting for Hart out of disgust over the Lance affair. Mondale's retreat, however, took much of the steam out of the fledgling revolt...
...mind that makes the changes. Come November, a woman from Tulsa (Hartford, Butte) will hear the curtain of the voting booth shut behind her, and she will be alone with America and her own life. Another woman's name will be on the ballot before her. However she votes, her thoughts about her place in the world will not be the same again...
...protested this betrayal to their former allies, but in vain. Votes for women were not "a practical thing," said Theodore Tilton. Said another former abolitionist: "It is the Negro's hour." Susan B. Anthony angrily retorted, "I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask for the ballot for the Black man and not for woman." She and Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association...
Carter will vote for the South Dakotan unless Walter F. Mondale appears to be having trouble winning on the first ballot. In that case he says he will help Mondale go over...
...Carter is not ballot the real and by of an party and, that dozen not earn he's not committed to From McGovern...