Word: getterism
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...really like the music," said one person, who did not want to give his name. "The free food is definitely the getter...
This year's top vote getter was Alma H. Young '69, the first Black woman to run a major U.S. port authority, who tallied 22,596 votes. Young was followed closely by David L. Johnston '63, vice-chancellor of McGill University, who received 22,004 votes...
...only other party that has a significant delegation in Parliament is the Liberal Democrats, who have 18 Members of Parliament. They actually received 18 percent of the popular vote, but Britain's electoral system, like America's, is not proportional. The top vote-getter in each district gets the seat in parliament...
...municipalities in which it ran, winning control of five town councils and later adding two more in subsequent contests. By all accounts, the organization's influence has increased since those elections. The movement has inherited some support from Israel's largely discredited Communist Party, previously the most successful vote getter among Israeli Arabs, and has bolstered its standing by providing relatively clean and efficient administrations...
...races remain markedly dissimilar. Whereas Ford became President after Richard Nixon resigned, Bush was elected in his own right. Unlike Buchanan, Reagan was a proven vote getter, who had twice been elected Governor of one of the nation's biggest states, and went on to win 10 primaries. Nonetheless, the spirit of 1976 may already be working for the Democrats. As a senior Bush campaign adviser said last week, "Everybody knows that the way to defeat an incumbent President is with a challenge from the ideological wing of the party...