Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though efforts were made in several cities this year to get Viet Nam on the ballot, only in San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass.,* were they successful. The controversial proposition was supported by jalopy cavaleades featuring psychedelic paint jobs and antiwar posters, in newspaper and radio ads and at numerous Proposition P parties...
...statewide open-housing law and new taxes. Neither contender openly courted Kentucky's segregationists, but both gleaned more votes from that quarter than Conservative Candidate Christian Glanz Jr., who was seeking 2% of the total vote in order to qualify his party for the 1968 presidential ballot and thereby qualify Alabama's George Wallace for a third-party spot. Nunn received 449,788 votes, Ward 423,189-and Glanz a scant 5,169, barely half of 1%. Thus Kentucky's vote in effect was for moderation...
...received widespread Negro support, and more than 250 Negroes sought office in the primary. Most fared poorly, but New Orleans Lawyer Ernest N. Morial won outright to become Louisiana's first Negro state legislator since Reconstruction, and two others won places on a Dec. 16 runoff ballot against white candidates...
Also on the stump was Alabama's former Governor George Wallace, who began a weeklong, six-city tour of Ohio in the hope of getting the 433,100 signatures he needs to have his name placed on the ballot there as an independent presidential candidate. The feat is probably beyond Wallace's band of eager amateurs, but he was drawing sizable audiences, as he had the week before on the West Coast. If nothing else, the natty gnat promises to be a disruptive influence...
...took to politics like a bird dog after quail. In 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to Speaker; then in 1932 he made a bid for the presidency. With potent support from William Randolph Hearst, Garner held the Texas and California delegations until the fourth ballot, then threw his votes to F.D.R., in a deal that made him the ticket...