Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sundry Other Evils. On the first two convention ballots, Kefauver held solid leads, sat drinking beer in a hotel room and said, "I've never been more delighted in my life." But that was the crest of his career. On the third roll-call ballot, the big-city Democratic leaders ganged up on him. Kefauver was whipped. He trudged into the convention hall, tried wearily to get to the platform to pull out of the fight. He was ruled out of order, sat down sheepishly to watch as the convention rolled on to nominate Stevenson...
Beginning within the next few weeks, signatures will be collected in, an attempt to place on the fall ballot a proposal calling for a constitutional convention in Massachusetts, Norman Greenwald told the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats Wednesday...
...fourth ballot, late Thursday afternoon, Montini reportedly lacked only four of the 54 votes he needed for election. With the sixth ballot the next morning, the vote was nearly unanimous; the cardinals lowered the canopies above their makeshift wooden thrones until all but the one over Montini were collapsed. Approaching him, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, dean of the college, asked in Latin: "Do you accept the election canonically raising you to the post of Supreme Pontiff?" Murmured Montini: "Accepto, in nomine Domini [I accept, in the name of the Lord...
California bypasses primaries in special elections, pits all candidates of whatever party against each other in a single, winner-take-all contest. With a registration advantage of 92,600 to 50,200, Democrats fell all over themselves getting into the race. Of five who finally appeared on the ballot, State Assemblyman Carley V. Porter, 57, was the favorite. He had the backing of the California Democratic Council, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education, and a glowing letter of support from President Kennedy. Of three Republicans, only Del Clawson, 49, the mayor of Compton (pop. 75,000), acted...
...over the White House next year are less than fifty-fifty has led to increased party emphasis on electing lesser candidates-Senators, Congressmen, Governors and other state and local officials. Toward this end, Republicans feel that their candidates would be helped by the presence at the top of the ballot of a presidential nominee who is readily identifiable as a "real" Republican. And nobody quite fills that bill as Goldwater does...