Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held a commanding lead in opinion polls. Kinnock has changed all that. At Blackpool he gave a masterly demonstration of his authority over a party that for the first time in seven years sniffs victory in the general elections, which must be held by June 1988. Indeed, if the ballot were today, according to recent opinion polls, Labor would have an edge of between 2 and 6 percentage points over the Tories...
...freshmen were completely on theball. Weld Hall's Rudy Ruiz '90 phoned The Crimsonlast night to find out how he could run for acouncil spot, only to learn that it was too latefor his name to appear on the official ballot...
...Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew like a shuttlecock. While in the House, Bailey had backed Reagan on some fiscal and social issues. Edgar, a staunch progressive, had the last word in debate -- and at the ballot box -- when he declared, "A real Democrat would have stood up to President Reagan and said no to those unfair tax policies...
This candidate still has trouble being recognized as the Republican choice. He lost his last-minute sticker campaign in the primary to Hyatt, who remained on the ballot, then withdrew after the results were announced...
...Pontiac dealer and a right-winger even by the standards of conservative Arizona, Evan Mecham had previously appeared four times on the ballot for Governor, so often that he became known as the "Harold Stassen of Arizona." Thus he was not taken all that seriously by the Republican establishment. This time around, everyone assumed that Burton Barr, the G.O.P. leader of the house who had the personal backing of Ronald Reagan, would easily capture the nomination and probably go on to win the governorship that Democrat Bruce Babbitt is vacating...