Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the 32-year-old Shannon beat Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry by 53.2 to 46.7 percent on the fourth ballot of the party convention June 9, Kerry, by most accounts, is still the narrow favorite to win the Democratic nomination in the mid-September primary...
Philippines Ballot...
...best counts." David Mixner, a key Hart strategist in California, argued that even if Mondale winds up 200 votes over a majority by convention time, "it's a slim margin. One event, one thing done wrong, and he's gone." If Hart kept Mondale from a first-ballot win, delegates might desert Mondale in droves...
...members of the Corporation for six year terms. The bill was defeated, but after vigorous debate a compromise was reached which signaled the end of the old system. The Corporation was left alone, but the Board of Overseers was changed to one of 30 members elected by a joint ballot of both legislative houses. This new board fought bitterly with the Corporation for control of the University and the two remained deadlocked for nearly a decade...
...remain, a minority. But more importantly, we assumed that capitalism's power came, as we used to say, from the barrel of the gun: the Vietnamese, the Panthers, and the protestors in University Hall seemed to prove that. The fact that the vast majority of American voters, by secret ballot in free and general elections, vote for the capitalist system every time they are given the chance seemed to us some kind of trick...