Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there any way that McGovern might be stopped short of a first-ballot nomination? Both Muskie and Humphrey seem to hold on to some wan hope. Muskie, after a night of soul-searching and consultation with his advisers, decided against throwing his strength to McGovern and guaranteeing his first-ballot nomination. Said Muskie: "If reform of the Democratic Party means anything, it means that the nominee of the party must be selected in an open convention...
...adopt such intransigent positions before the credentials and platform committees that his momentum would abruptly halt, and the uncommitted delegates would harden against him. According to this scenario, he would so antagonize party regulars that his delegates would freeze at 1,300, denying him a first-ballot victory. Then a hemorrhage might begin, with his delegates leaking away to Muskie or Humphrey or a dark horse. But to deny the nomination to a man who had accumulated 1,300 or more delegates through the primaries would likely provoke a disastrous party schism...
...entirely, even though the city's property taxes rose higher than those of most of its suburbs. School officials asked for another tax increase last May 16, but Detroiters voted solidly against it. They are likely to do so again when the proposed tax boost appears on the ballot a second time...
...Mitchum Anti-Perspirant, which shows a bare-chested fellow leaning out of bed announcing that because of Mitchum, he did not have to use a deodorant yesterday and does not plan to use one again today. ("No wonder he's sleeping alone," wrote one CROCer on his ballot...
...volunteers, they began cranking out 100,000 leaflets a day, which other youths distributed from door to door. They have operated on a budget of only $172,000, but by May of 1971, they managed to get the 325,000 signatures needed to put Proposition Nine on the ballot. And when a Harris poll sampled voter opinion on the issue last February, California's political and business leaders (and union leaders as well) learned to their horror that the voters favored the measure by a margin...