Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the East came sounds of persistent pounding at Nixon's delegate support. Some of his staffers admitted that their man had lost about 50 delegate votes in the past few weeks. They still believe, however, that he will get at least 700 on the first ballot, 33 more than needed for nomination. North Carolina, once counted as solid for Nixon, went soft, may go for a favorite son. In the Midwest, there were signs of a slight shift toward Nelson Rockefeller. In the South, Ronald Reagan was having a visible effect...
Nonendorsements. Four weeks ago, TIME correspondents surveyed the commitments and inclinations of the 1,333 G.O.P. delegates. The indication then was that Nixon could expect 688 first-ballot votes, or 21 more than necessary for the nomination (TIME, July 5). A recheck last week showed a slight erosion of that strength and enough uncertainty in some states to put a first-ballot nomination in question...
Dangers. The shadow cast by Wallace involves not popular ballots but electoral votes. Wallace predicts that he will be on the ballot in all states except, perhaps, Ohio, and his aides claim that he has qualified in some three dozen already (although in Massachusetts election officials have been rejecting up to 70% of the signatures on Wallace nominating petitions as inaccurate or false). It is certain that citizens represented by a large majority of the electoral vote will get a chance to cast Wallace ballots. How many is difficult to forecast. Third-party candidates often look more powerful...
Republican delegates, who have begun arriving in droves in this vacationland, are a mixed lot. One out of five is a returnee from the 1964 convention which nominated Barry Goldwater on the first ballot, according to Congressional Quarterly's statistics. One out of 50 is a Negro...
...keep a play suspended high and Babe Knows so--the crowning glory has to come from soaring moments of poetry from outbursts of noble fanaticism, the over-statement of the impassioned orator. Thus when the final blackout comes it is to chants of Malcolm's "Give us the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot of the Bullet..." The hypnosis the cries generate is appropriate, however inadequate they may be as statements for programmatic action...