Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, the Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee voted down a similar pledge card, calling the proposal undemocratic. Citing the Wisconsin decision, McCarthy commented early this week that the card "comes further to denying the people their right to a secret ballot than anything in the national history...
Though the Republican contenders are generating all the excitement and all the headlines as New Hampshire's March 12 primary approaches, a well-organized, intensive campaign is being waged on behalf of a Democrat whose name is not even on the ballot. Barely noticed outside the state, the write-in drive for Lyndon B. Johnson might very well serve as a model for the real thing in November...
...well be, since enthusiasm for a Ronald Reagan write-in-which would siphon off Nixon strength-is evaporating. As if this were not enough woe for Romney, six Nelson Rockefeller supporters paid the $10 fee to file as G.O.P. convention delegate candidates on the secondary part of the ballot, and Rocky's 1964 New Hampshire chairman continues to contemplate a Granite State write-in for the Rock...
...Denmark's Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, 53, has been forced to call parliamentary elections three times. Though energetic, craggily handsome and married to one of Denmark's cinema beauties, Krag has seemed less and less attractive to his country's voters with each successive ballot. He has not only acted highhanded in public (he has periodically scolded Danish workers for yearning for the better life), but has hurt his image by ignoring the sound political advice of his party cronies. He blundered, for example, by insisting on holding last week's elections right at income...
...election but "managed to escape all the unseemly excitement of Election Day by the simple expedient of nobody running for anything." The town treasurer, a lady who keeps the ledgers on her dining-room table, confessed that she "just never got around to putting her name on the ballot." The mayor wearily explained that he was not running for re-election because "we have all the aggravations of the big cities, maybe more. We have dogs, cats, neighbors fighting...