Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whose Favorite? Last week, drawing up the card for the primary, a bipartisan Wisconsin nominating committee was divided on what other candidates to place on the ballot. Nixon, Romney, California Governor Ronald Reagan and, as always, Harold Stassen, were accepted as "generally advocated or recognized" possibilities. So were Rockefeller and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, though both immediately announced that they would seek to have their names removed...
Reagan argued that as California's favorite son, it would be inconsistent to withdraw his name from Wisconsin's ballot. According to Mervin Field's California Poll, however, Reagan is far from everybody's favorite. An overwhelming 70% of California Republicans want a choice of other delegate slates on their primary ballot, and only 25% want a single slate pledged to Reagan...
...face-off with the President, McCarthy complained that Johnson's pledge-card campaign (TIME, Feb. 9) was tantamount to a denial of the right to a secret ballot and likened it to branding cattle in Texas. At week's end, Robert Kennedy's unauthorized New Hampshire committee said it would heed the New York Senator's pleas to drop its write-in campaign, and most members announced that they would transfer their backing to McCarthy. Even so, there was every indication that McCarthy's drive to check L.B.J. was still moving on perilously thin...
...same reception, McCarthy urged Republican voters to write-in his name on the Republican ballot...
...card" are part of the "New Hampshire Citizens for Johnson" write-in campaign. It is attempting to hold the Granite State's 1968 National Democratic convention delegates to LBJ despite the challenge of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D.-Minn.). The President's name is not permitted on the primary ballot because he hasn't announced he will be a candidate for re-election...