Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace spoke there last week on a swing through the state, bringing his message of exasperation and estrangement, he won sympathetic audiences. Taking a leaf from McCarthy, George sent 100 polite, properly accoutered students into Massachusetts to help win the 61,238 signatures he needs to get on the ballot. "If we make it in Massachusetts, we'll make it in all the states," he said from behind the heart-high, bulletproof shield that protects him during speeches. Howling protesters tried their best. Once shouts of "Sieg Heil!" drove him off the platform...
Tipping Scales. He is already on the ballot in 32 states. Petition drives are in progress in ten more. Louisiana Governor John McKeithen, a staunch Humphreyite, admits that Wallace is the present odds-on favorite in that state. The Alabamian should carry Mississippi as well as his home state, and elsewhere in the South he may draw off enough votes to wreck Nixon's chance of carrying Dixie. In any state, north or south, where the balance is close, George Wallace can tip the scales to the party that loses fewer supporters to his cause...
With Nixon on the ballot, New York would probably go Democratic, whoever the party's candidate may be. Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, would probably carry the state, as well as Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while turning the Massachusetts and Rhode Island races into photo finishes and losing Delaware to the Democrats. While Massachusetts has a Republican Governor and one G.O.P. Senator, its predominantly Democratic voters have little enthusiasm for Nixon. In Connecticut, city votes are expected to outweigh Nixon's strength in affluent downstate counties. Pennsylvania gave 51.2% of its votes to John F. Kennedy...
...leftists and anarchists had in mind. Only a few short weeks ago, in early May, a revolt started among students at the Sorbonne and spread to workers across the country, plunging France into its most serious peacetime crisis in a century. Now, abruptly, that revolt was repudiated in the ballot boxes of Brittany and Cantal, of Lorraine and Provence. "The people have learned a lesson," declared Premier Georges Pompidou, who led the Gaullist campaign. "They want neither the red flag nor the black one"-neither Communism nor anarchy...
...party that suffered most of all was the Movement for Reform, a centrist splinter group that was hastily organized as a protest against Gaullism by De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister, Edgar Pisani. It was wiped out on the first ballot. In fact, the only opposition group that made any gains was the small United Socialist Party, which almost doubled its voter strength -to 4% of the total. Even so, the party's chief, former Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, was by no means certain of retaining his Assembly seat in a runoff contest with...