Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broken leg since mid-March, he is still a candidate for the game, crutches and all, while the California Angels' Alex Johnson, who has a .348 average, is not. In fact, almost half of the top 20 hitters in the major leagues have been omitted from the ballot, including Leftfielder Rico Carty of the Atlanta Braves. He is batting .395-25 points ahead of his closest competitor in the National League...
...Carty is the most ludicrous inconsistency in what has come to be known as "Bowie's booboo." To keep people "involved" in the All-Star game, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided last winter to again let the fans make the selections instead of the players. To prevent ballot stuffing, Kuhn arranged to have the voting policed and tabulated by computer. Trouble was, to allow enough time for programming the computer, managers and player representatives had to select the nominees last spring, which is about as reliable as trying to predict the Dow-Jones averages eight months in advance. Spaces...
...Alabama and New Mexico, they represented a kind of local orthodoxy. Where the relatively progressive candidates won, as in the New Jersey Senate primaries, they stood for their party establishments. Radicalism on the left and restlessness in the middle may be rising, but they have yet to submerge the ballot...
...members of SOC'M are now planning to attempt to gain the approximately 3500 signatures of Cambridge voters needed to put the firing onto the ballot. Yesterday, Michael J. Amato, president of the group, said he felt the effort would be successful. "I'm sure we'll get at least that many signatures. We'll try to get a lot more," he said...
Buoyed by prosperity, most Americans by 1968 were able to forget economics at the ballot box and vote other imperatives instead. Their sense of financial freedom further weakened the traditional New Deal coalition, assisting Richard Nixon into the White House. Now that situation seems to be changing. Higher prices, rising unemployment, scarce credit, an erratic stock market have restored the pocketbook as a prime issue in this election year...