Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...euphoria seemed premature at best. The odds against the Senator's winning the presidential nomination are still enormous, indeed virtually insuperable. Carter has already won more than half the delegates that he needs for the nomination.* This means that to keep the President from a first-ballot victory at the Democratic National Convention in August, Kennedy must win an all-but-impossible 62% of the delegates at stake in all the remaining caucuses and primaries. These contests take place largely in the South, Midwest and West, where Kennedy has little popularity, little organization and little money...
...Kennedy "to wake Carter up." A 50-year-old White Plains freelance writer supported Kennedy to protest Carter's economic policies. Said she: "I'm not pro-Kennedy in any way. I have a basic distrust of the man." Ithaca Magazine Editor Bryant Robey, 39, regarded his ballot for Kennedy as a "message to Carter that I no longer know where he stands on the issues. Leadership is not taking a poll and trying to jump ahead...
...toward the Republican nomination. Reagan supporters easily won most of the delegate contests in New York, and he ran a strong second to George Bush in Connecticut. In all, Reagan took 87 of the 158 delegates at stake, giving him 293 of the 998 votes needed for a first-ballot nomination at the Republican National Convention in July...
...increase may persuade local citizens to vote in favor of the controversial tax-cutting Proposition 2 1/2 on the November state ballot, Duehay said...
...faces a horrendous obstacle course. In order to get on the ballot in all 50 states, Anderson would have to submit a total of about 685,000 valid signatures to the individual states, ranging from 25 in Tennessee to 101,000 in California...