Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scargill's strike has won relatively little support. Just this week, British dockers called off a solidarity strike largely because of insufficient support among union members. This tepid response can be traced to a number of factors. First was Scargill's decision to call the strike without a national ballot among union members--earlier ballots had rejected strike calls--prompting many to label the walkout undemocratic. This view has been reinforced by nightly television broadcasts showing violence on the picket lines against miners who continue to work. Then there is the issue of Scargill himself. Rumored to be a member...
...results were not so much a resounding note for Mulroney as they were a deafening rejection of the incumbents. "The Liberal Party had become too remote, too arrogant," says George Perlin, professor of political science at Queens University at Kingston, Ont. Editorialized the Toronto Sun the day after the ballot: "The people didn't speak, they bellowed, then chewed up the Liberals and spit them...
...Minister Trudeau and the Liberals in the 1979 elections, Clark was in office only nine months before a parliamentary no-confidence vote brought down his rickety government and returned Trudeau to power. Crippled by his reputation as a has-been, Clark lost the leadership to Mulroney on the fourth ballot at the party convention...
...Wednesday night's roll call proceeded predictably-votes for Reagan and Bush were cast on the same ballot-the President and Bush were joined in the Reagans' suite by their wives. The Missouri delegation's vote boosted the uncontested ticket over the top just 45 min. later than the script said it would. Ever ready with a one-liner, Reagan quipped, "We've been sweating this...
While Hart wanted to block Mondale from a first-ballot win, he had been boxed in. Mondale strategists had reluctantly agreed not to resist Hart's one floor motion, which sought to ban the use of U.S. troops, particularly in the Persian Gulf, until after all negotiations had failed and only if U.S. security was at stake. In return, Hart instructed his delegates to vote against the Jackson dual-primary plank. In an earlier unifying move, Mondale had agreed to let Hart address the convention on Wednesday night, right before the nomination balloting was scheduled to begin...