Word: balloting
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...unusual Texas law permits Bentsen to run for vice president at the same time he is on the ballot for re-election to the Senate...
Reagan says "You'll never hear that 'L' word--liberal--from" Dukakis, and he's right. Dukakis says this election "isn't about ideology." George McGovern isn't on the ballot this year. And George Bush won't be facing Fritz Mondale come November. He'll be facing a competent, hardworking statesman not far from the mainstream of American politics. Republicans won't win by pinning labels on Dukakis...
Meteorological omens aside, Cardenas' pronouncement was soon contradicted. Two days later, Mexico's Federal Electoral Commission released the long- delayed final tabulation of the July 6 presidential ballot. As expected, the victor was Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), with 50.36% of the 19 million votes cast. Cardenas, the leftist opponent, finished with 31.12%, and the challenger on the right, Manuel Clouthier, received 17.07%. Two minor candidates accounted for the rest of the total. Final returns in voting for the Chamber of Deputies gave the P.R.I. 260 of the 500 seats, well short...
J.F.K. had pondered the Vice President question very little as the Los Angeles convention approached. His consuming concern was to win a first-ballot nomination. He flew to New York City's Idlewild Airport on Friday night. He and Jackie had a suite in the nearby International Hotel. It was a strange evening. There were only a few reporters around and virtually no Kennedy aides or security people...
...Democrat, I'm a Democrat," Eddinger says. "I voted a split ticket once, and I haven't felt too happy about it." Looking embarrassed, Eddinger admits to having cast a ballot for Richard M. Nixon...