Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential race just doesn't interest you, remember that in the words of the late House Speaker and Bostonian Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Jr., "all politics is local." If you don't have the energy or desire to get an absentee ballot for your home state, we have one of the hottest Senate races in the country right here in Massachusetts. Junior Senator John Kerry is having a tough time with challenger and Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld '66. To this point, the campaigns have been marked by heavy advertising on Weld's side with only recent rebuttals from...
California this fall is embroiled in the biggest, bitterest, most potentially significant ballot-initiative campaign since Proposition 13, the 1978 property-tax rollback that transformed American politics. The initiative is called Proposition 209, and it would abolish affirmative action in state contracting, education and employment. It has been running consistently ahead in the polls...
...presidential election. The calculation went like this: the initiative appeared to be quite popular. President Clinton, on the other hand, was looking pretty tenuous for re-election. In a close race, the one state he absolutely had to win was California. If the initiative was on the ballot the same day as the presidential election, and if Clinton opposed it, and if the Republican presidential candidate endorsed it so strongly as to turn the race in California into a referendum on affirmative action--then the initiative could cost Clinton the presidency...
...really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively pushing it, without much success...
...senior female enters her respective dining hall to vote for class marshal. She grabs a ballot sheet, quickly looks for names she recognizes, votes, puts it in the manila envelope and leaves. Another senior does the same, and then another and so forth. All have voted, but very few take the time to glance at The Crimson's spread on the candidates lying six inches away...