Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NINE weeks before the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Vice President Hubert Humphrey is in easy reach of a first ballot victory. 341 delegates are already committed to Humphrey and 995½ lean toward him but could conceivably turn elsewhere. Needed to nominate: 1,312. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 322½ committed votes are augmented by a mere 105½ votes leaning in his direction. The remaining 857½ votes could flow either way. They include 338 votes for favorite sons who could declare for Humphrey even before the first ballot. The probable first-ballot roll call of delegates...
Prime Time. In California, where he is thinking of second-ballot votes, he missed hardly a stop, skipping from San Francisco's Commonwealth Club to the Town Hall Forum and a private meeting with influential G.O.P. supporters in Los Angeles. "There are some hard-core Nixon people," said Tire Heir Leonard Firestone after the meeting, "but there are lots of open-minded people." At week's end Rocky was at the Republican Governors' Conference in Tulsa, Okla., where he finally won the endorsement of Shafer, who will bring him 40 to 50 of Pennsylvania...
...Kennedy's death, Indiana party leaders declared that the slate would go uncommitted to Chicago, but in fact Governor Roger Branigin, who ran as a favorite son in the primary against Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, will almost surely throw most of the votes to Humphrey on the first ballot...
Forcing a Polarization. On the center-right is De Gaulle's party, the Union for the Defense of the Republic. Once again, it is allied with the Independent Republicans of former Gaullist Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and on the first ballot, the two parties will support the same candidate in most-though not all -constituencies...
...scenes a few Young Democrats were becoming active in a new group called the Conference of Concerned Democrats. One of them was quoted as saying in a CRIMSON story at the time, "The most effective way to put pressure on a political person like Johnson is through the ballot. By defeating President Johnson in a series of primaries next Spring we hope to demonstrate Johnson's unpopularity -- which is tremendous -- as forcefully as possible...