Word: ballots
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...said to have suffered a broken eardrum at his hands, and another reportedly told him in high school, after he had repeatedly failed to win any class office, "You are good to take care of people, but we are still scared of you." His fortunes at the school ballot box offered little encouragement to a boy who talked about becoming Prime Minister someday...
...York Republican, beginning with Senator Al D'Amato, has announced for Dole ahead of the schedule set several months ago. In some places endorsements are greeted with yawns. But in New York having the G.O.P. machine in your corner can mean you run unopposed. "We've got Soviet-style ballot-access rules," D'Amato complained in 1988, when George Bush kept Dole off the ballot in most of the state's congressional districts. "The regulations have been liberalized somewhat,'' says Frank Penski, a New York attorney and election-law expert. "You no longer have petition signatures thrown out because someone...
Supporters of the effort to draftformer Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powellas a Republican presidential candidate are meeting in New Hampshire tonight to coordinate efforts to get him on the 1996 primary ballot there...
...taxes contributed by workers that year. In the early days it was a fabulous money-and-votes machine. Workers paying taxes, even at what now look like phenomenally low rates, so heavily outnumbered retirees that Congress could raise benefits every few years, to the glee of pensioners and the ballot-box profit of their representatives. Even when the money began to run out in 1983, a bipartisan commission saved the day--for the next 75 years, it was then thought--by recommending rather minor cutbacks in benefits and very major increases in taxes, the last of which took effect only...
...whatever I have to do to get our goals accomplished in the most intelligent way." They fear a repeat of the damage Perot inflicted on George Bush in 1992. And Bill Clinton's advisers shiver when they hear Jackson musing that "a lot of people are interested in more ballot access as the Democrats and Republicans become indistinguishable." The Clintonites worry about an independent Jackson candidacy that could destroy the President's already fragile prospects for re-election...