Word: caucusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office to hold two such Washington meetings a month. In an auditorium jammed with eager reporters in the Executive Office Building, the President seemed uncommonly wary. He passed up any opening statement and virtually challenged his inquisitors to try to pull any news out of him. With the Florida caucus a few days off, they responded by focusing eleven of their 19 questions on the 1980 presidential campaign and on the allied theme of the nation's economic health...
Still, the Brown organization is optimistic. His strategists hope he will place second to Kennedy in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries, and score well in the Minnesota precinct caucus and the Illinois primary. Says Quinn: "If Carter comes in third in Illinois, he's finished." If Kennedy is regarded as too big a spender and Carter as incompetent, guess who will be "a new possibility." If not, as Brown said: "Maybe it will take more than one year. Maybe it will take four years. I'm only 41, and I've got a lot of time...
...most delegates, 188. The Kennedy side is led by Mike Abrams, who operates out of a public relations agency on Biscayne Boulevard. At a meeting of 400 workers in the grand ballroom of the Dupont Plaza Hotel, he announced that the Kennedy workers would wear "K" stickers on caucus day so that they can be identified and served Cokes as they wait in line. Joked he: "The other side will probably have caviar, but all of you bring 25 people and we will win." His fleet of caucus-day vehicles includes seven black limousines from funeral homes...
...that as it may, Nancy Abrams and crew were doing their best to out-cola the Kennedy people in taking care of the voters on caucus day. Said Nancy: "Whoever takes care of them best has the key." In addition to cold drinks, she and her workers will offer them umbrellas and seats. She boasted: "We have plenty of buses, all air conditioned." Said she of her side's supporters: "Sure there's dissatisfaction with Carter, but people aren't ready to switch. There are underlying bad feelings about Kennedy...
Given the small turnout that is expected, as few as 100 votes could decide many of the contests, even in the big counties. In any event, no matter who wins the caucuses, President Carter is the heavy favorite to carry the straw vote in November, because his followers dominate the party machinery and hold most of the elective offices. Of 135 seats at the convention already assigned by party executive committees, Carterites claim they have all but ten. Said Carter volunteer Chip Ford of Miami of the caucus results: "Who is to say who has won? The true meaning...