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...popular vote. In theory, Hart could win more delegates than have agreed to run under his banner, filling the empty seats after the primary. In other states, prominently including Florida and Illinois, most delegates are elected directly by congressional district, in a vote separate from the presidential-preference balloting. Once listed on the ballot as being pledged to one candidate, they cannot shift and appear under the name of another. Thus in Illinois Hart will have to persuade voters in some districts to check his name on the presidential-preference section of the ballot, then go down to the delegate...
...elected as being pledged to Mondale, Glenn or other candidates. He could do it too. Of the delegates going to San Francisco, 15% will not be pledged to any candidate. Moreover, the party has scrapped the rule that in 1980 legally bound delegates to vote on the first ballot for the candidate to whom they were pledged. Hart can legitimately hope that if he wins enough late contests to be the choice of a clear majority of Democrats by the time the last caucus and primary votes are counted, he can wind up with the convention votes of many delegates...
Florida P 143 Mondale scores high with elderly and Jewish voters. Glenn and Hart want to inherit voters loyal to Favorite Son Askew. Latecomer Hart has only 34 delegates on the ballot...
Hawaii C 27 Only Mondale and Jackson are on the ballot. But lukewarm voters could elect uncommitted delegates instead...
...caucus voting for presidential candidates is radical, explained Scammon. The lowans attending their caucuses gather in groups according to candidate preference. Theirs is an open vote, easy prey for zealous organizers and subject to a wide range of human pressures and enticements right on the spot. The secret ballot, which is the very heart of our democratic procedure, was designed to prevent such distortions. The polling booth is everyman's temple, unassailable by blandishments from the outside world if the person so chooses. In there voters can be giant killers. In New Hampshire they were...