Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign: "Sometimes I wished they'd booed me or kicked me or done something. I just couldn't get much response." By then it was too late. McCarthy got 45% of the vote, Kennedy 39%, Johnson (whose abdication came too late to permit his removal from the ballot) 12%, and Humphrey 4%, as a write-in candidate. It was the first defeat suffered by any of the three Kennedy brothers in the 27 primary and general-election campaigns they have waged since John F. first ran for Congress...
...More than in Nebraska, his absentee rivals, Rockefeller and Reagan, had the benefit of well-financed publicity drives aimed at cutting down Nixon's plurality. Yet Nixon smashed all public and private predictions to amass 73% of the vote, compared with 23% for Reagan, who was on the ballot, and a 4% write-in for Rockefeller...
...government insisted that the long count was necessary in order to ensure a fair tabulation of the votes and give election-day passions in the volatile nation a chance to cool down. Arias supporters charged that President Marco Aurelio Robles was really only buying time so that the ballot boxes could be stuffed in favor of his government candidate, former Finance Minister David Samudio...
There was probably some truth in the contentions of both sides. Ballot boxes from more than 200 of the country's 1,389 precincts either vanished or were so obviously tampered with that they were nullified by the neutral National Election Board. Whatever the irregularities, Arias won by so commanding a margin-with 175,432 votes to Samudio's 133,887-that the outcome could hardly have been altered by the shenanigans of either side...
...deal with the double problem of indecision and hidden prejudice, Gallup has voters mark secret ballots and deposit them in sealed boxes in the last few polls just before election day. The ballot obliges them to make a choice. Equally helpful is the new "intensity question." Using a scale ranging from plus 5 to minus 5, pollsters ask voters to indicate how strongly they feel about candidates and issues. Plus 5 indicates a firm attachment to a candidate; plus 1 suggests that the voter might well swing to the other side. Even in very close contests, pollsters can usually spot...