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Formed 10 years ago, the party has continued to grow. In the last presidential election, the Libertarian candidate made the ballot in all 50 states, and got 3 percent of the vote nationwide...
...Despite ballot-box appeal, the antinuke movement is worried...
...American voters may be surprised to discover on Nov. 2 that they are taking part in one of the largest national plebiscites since the repeal of Prohibition. The proposal that the U.S. and the Soviet Union should agree to a mutual freeze on nuclear weapons is on the ballot in nine states, the District of Columbia and such cities as Chicago, Philadelphia and Denver. Nearly a third of the electorate will have a chance to take a stand on the issue...
...hunt it, there ought to be a vote of all the people." A pro-moose outfit called SMOOSA (for Save Maine's Only Official State Animal) already has collected some 40,000 signatures protesting annual moose hunts, enough to place the issue on next year's state ballot...
Five days before the Bundestag ballot, West German voters seemed to display their unease about the impending new coalition in elections for the local parliament of the central industrial state of Hesse. Widely expected to win a clear majority in that election, the Christian Democrats polled 45.6% of the vote. The Free Democrats were wiped out of the assembly, gaining only 3.1% of the vote, far less than the 5% necessary to retain representation. Campaigning vigorously under the slogan "Betrayal in Bonn," Schmidt's Social Democrats gained 42.8%, an increase of more than 10 percentage points over their predicted...