Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican ballot, Richard Nixon was opposed by Ohio's conservative Congressman John Ashbrook, who got 1% of the vote. California's liberal Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey, who had already withdrawn from the race, also got 1%. The President scored...
...serene front runner to that of an embattled man on the verge of being knocked completely out of the race for his party's nomination for President. Before the plunge, much of the press (including TIME) and many politicians saw him as almost a certain first-ballot winner at the Democratic Convention in July. Now he could easily turn out to be what President Nixon derisively termed him after the 1970 Congressional elections: "the George Romney of the Democratic Party." What went wrong...
...bill-Which allows 18 year olds to drink and to sell alcoholic beverages in licensed liquor stores-Will not become effective until April 1, 1973, after a non-binding referendum on the November ballot...
This year's nominations were altogether perverse. Although legends of ballot-stuffing are legion, usually the good ladies and gentlemen of the Academy pick the films they feel are good for the industry image. How anyone could back an out-and-out stinker like Nicholas and Alexandra while there were greater moneymakers of far greater quality in the offing--Sunday. Bloody Sunday, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Little Murders. Straw Dogs--is beyond the understanding of rational man. (Especially as Nick and Alex was produced independently...
...many candidates have jumped into them that no one has much chance of emerging a clear winner. Even if one candidate in a primary does manage to lead the pack, he will be badly, maybe fatally scarred by his snapping rivals. The pile-up of names on the ballot gave an unforeseen boost to George Wallace, who won in Florida because the vote was split so many ways. Wallace might be contained if some of the liberal or centrist candidates quit the race. But on the eve of Wisconsin, only Vance Hartke, after getting 3% of the vote...