Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would suggest that all future proposals that profess to truly represent University sentiment should be voted on, by ballot, at meals in each of the various houses. Such proposals would not be considered endorsed by the student body unless at least 70 per cent of the students vote and at least two-thirds of that 70 per cent endorses the proposal. It that arrangement proves too difficult to implement, and it should not, that bursar's cards should be checked at all future mass meetings and provisions made to accomodate more of the student body to prevent the recurrence...
Reform forces will challenge most of the Cambridge Democratic ward committees on the election ballot today, in the hopes of creating community-based, issue-oriented ward committees...
...just as surely, a vote tomorrow for anyone other than McGovern or Chisholm is a vote for the Democratic establishment-which may be able to put a new face but not a new policy, in the White House. A Nixon-Muskie, Nixon-Jackson or, unbelievably, another Nixon-Humphrey ballot in November would offer no choice at all. Nixon said in 1968 that he would get the U.S. out of Vietnam...
That would have been the outcome, had Edward Kennedy been on the ballot, according to the TIME/Yankelovich survey of 382 voters who were interviewed as they were leaving the polling booths. No fewer than 122 of them would have preferred Kennedy to the choice they made. Giving their votes to Teddy and taking them away from the candidates they actually voted for produces the lineup in which Kennedy wins overwhelmingly...
...switched to the Massachusetts Senator. Kennedy's name would have had the most effect in changing the votes of blue-collar workers (43%) and Democratic voters (39%). Only 7% of the cross-over Republican voters in Wisconsin would have selected Kennedy. Interestingly, if he had been on the ballot it would have made a greater difference to the middle-age and older voters (34%) than to the new and young voters (28%), suggesting that the young would have stayed loyal to McGovern. Remarkably, considering Chappaquiddick, considerably more women (39%) than men (27%) in the sample would have gone over...