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Still, no voting group was more decisive than the blacks. Carter lost the white vote, 47.6% to 51.3%. But he won roughly 92% of the 6.6 million black votes, according to Washington's Joint Center for Political Studies. Though a CBS survey gave Carter only 82% of the black vote and the analysis by Pollster Louis Harris gave him 87.3%, the Joint Center is considered more reliable since it compiled statistics from 1,165 precincts where blacks account for 87% or more of the population. Carter's showing compares well with George McGovern...
According to the Joint Center, the percentage of voting-age blacks who cast ballots rose from 41% in 1972 to 43% this year. The figure is still below the national turnout of 55%-but high enough to have made the difference in a dozen or so crucial states. To cite only one: in Ohio, Carter won by 7,076 votes; he received 282,000 black ballots (see chart). The massive black majority made the South almost solid for Carter (he lost only Virginia); without it, he would have won only Georgia, Arkansas and Tennessee. Ford won 55% of the white...
Late last month, the Center for Astrophysics hosted a delegation of high-ranking Russian astrophysicists, including B.N. Petrov, head of the Soviet space program and all joint US-USSR space missions. The Russians had just come from talks in Washington with the national Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA...
...Asian Americans now working in conjunction with the University." It might serve him to point out, then, that the tentative steps taken by the Admissions Office and the Dean of Students Office reflecting but not acknowledging recognition of Asian Americans as a minority are the direct result of such joint efforts, with such goals in mind. The full minority status which Asian Americans still seek would be proof only of genuine philosophical commitment to the ideals of all these programs...
...nothing to take power: "If everybody don't get in line, there's gonna be a lot of heads rolling. Lillo's gonna wipe up the streets with a few people that didn't bow down to him when he come out of the joint [prison] or didn't bow down to him when he was in the joint, even worse...