Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss to Nixon still show in doubts about his vote-getting power. Yet his aides assert that they are getting calls from former Muskie supporters. Humphrey hopes to stop Wallace either by beating him outright in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or West Virginia (where only Humphrey and Wallace are on the ballot) or by running so close to him everywhere that some other candidates will throw their support to Humphrey as the only way of knocking Wallace out. The money is sure to come a little more easily now. Humphrey called Beverly Hills Attorney Gene Wyman after the Florida vote and asked...
Alumni will elect five of the ten nominees on the ballot this Spring. Of the ten CCA is supporting Thomas I. Atkins (AM '63 and JD '69), Charles H. W. Foster '51, and Adele Simmons...
Yesterday's victory is important to Muskie since it represents his first solid victory in the first three weeks of primaries. While the Maine Senator was helped by the presence of only one of his opponents on the ballot, his victory is still impressive, particularly in view of his nine per cent showing in Florida last week...
Even Whim. Traditionally, too, American women have rarely engaged in politics on behalf of their own sex. Analysis of voting patterns over the years shows that there is nothing readily definable as the women's vote. American women, in fact, cast their ballot much like American men. More important than sex in determining how they will vote are education, class, ethnic background, race, religion or even whim. As Herbert Hyman, professor of sociology at Wesleyan University, puts it: "Women are as heterogeneous a mess as anybody could use for an analytical concept...
...next round takes place Tuesday in Illinois. Only two Presidential candidates are on the ballot. Muskie and Eugene McCarthy. Muskie is likely to win in the non-binding Presidential Preference Primary, but McCarthy's backers are hoping to add anti-Muskie votes to Clean Gene's base of support. Perhaps a strong McCarthy showing in Illinois will thrust him back into the thick of things, but probably...