Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues with conviction, but he's almost more anxious to talk about why he's "driven" to run for president. His voice raspy from heavy campaigning, Anderson persists, leaning forward to make his point. "We have to submerge the special interests each of us has--somehow we have to elect an American president who can convince the people of this country of the sacrifice needed to make our system work...
...Yorty's 1972 New Hampshire bid? No one else does. Last time around, another gaggle of absurdist candidates spiced the winter grind: Stanley "Vote Alphabetically" Arnold (290 votes), the Rev. Arthur "We need to put Jesus Christ back into politics" Blessit (886 votes, or 1 per cent), Robert L. "Elect the Last President and Give America Parliamentary Government" Kelleher (113 votes), and the anti-Communist ticket of Billy Joe Clegg and Auburn Lee Pack-wood of Springfield, Mo. (188 votes). This year, Ronald Reagan's paltry attempts at humor will have to provide the comic relief...
...political maxim in Cambridge was that students didn't vote--a postulate that proved true until last November, when students turned out in force to help elect the City Council and school committee...
...Lowell House Committee voted late last night to hold a House-wide referendum to decide whether to elect representatives to the Student Assembly's next session...
...other extreme Marxists. A poll by the London Times showed that 54% of Britons favor a new centrist party in the political lineup. The N.E.C.'s high-handedness may have galvanized the moderates into action. Leaders of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers immediately mounted a campaign to elect moderates to its 1 million-vote conference bloc; that move could swing the balance once again to the cautious socialism of the right...