Word: getterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest vote getter, as expected, was the South West African People's Organization, or SWAPO, the Marxist-led group that conducted a 23-year guerrilla war for independence. But SWAPO won only 57% of the vote and 41 seats, far short of the 85% prediction by Sam Nujoma, 60, the group's leader, or of the 67% that would have let SWAPO shape the constitution...
...attempts of Walsh and Today's Independents to make the ballot initiative the central campaign issue may have ended up hurting the referendum's quiet supporters. Sullivan, for years the city's top vote-getter, ran a distant third in this year's campaign...
This year's election marks the first time since 1961 that Independent Councillor Walter J. Sullivan has not met the quota on the first count. Sullivan, almost always the city's top vote-getter, now leads the race for the third seat with approximately 2565 votes...
Sullivan, the top vote-getter in every electionfrom 1961 to 1987, received 3738 votes in 1975,making him the last candidate to beat Wolf's totalthis year...
Although Sullivan is the city's top vote-getter in almost every council election, he cultivates a low profile in most council meetings and almost never speaks. His explanation is that he prefers to focus on constituent concerns, rather than waste time on long debates...