Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson, Kennedy, and McCarthy will all appear on the May 14 Nebraska presidential primary ballot...
...said that this effort could influence the progress of the convention after the first ballot, when delegates' commitments are no longer binding...
WISCONSIN, April 2. McCarthy, sharing the ballot only with Johnson, has a good chance of scoring a decisive victory and may get important aid from antiwar Republicans, who have the legal right to cross over on primary day. Even Lyndon Johnson's campaign director describes it as "fertile ground" for McCarthy. So far, the President has shown no disposition to climb down from his above-the-battle aloofness. His supporters plan a heavy, if belated, advertising campaign. Most of the state's leading Democratic officeholders are studiously neutral in public and hostile to Johnson in private...
...Columbia), several are not subject to direct challenge. In Ohio, for instance, Senator Stephen Young seems to have the 115-vote delegation behind him as a favorite son. Young has been planning-at least so far-to release these votes to Johnson before the convention's first ballot...
Kennedy's chances rest on prying out enough votes, mainly from the non-primary states, to come into the convention with at least a respectable bloc. If his strength, together with McCarthy's and that of a few favorite sons, is large enough to preclude a first-ballot victory for Johnson, Kennedy might then just possibly knit together a subsequent majority vote...