Word: levering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they came back to their party for other offices. But most were in a selective mood; personalities and state-level disputes weighed at least as heavily as national politics. Thus in Kentucky, where voters could have voted a straight Republican ticket with the flick of a single voting-machine lever, not enough did. The result was that while Nixon was winning handily, Republican Senatorial Candidate Louie B. Nunn was losing a seat that had traditionally been Republican. Whatever patterns existed seemed in conflict with one another. Most of the Democrats who won surprising victories?such as Floyd K. Haskell...
...American people lost dearly last Tuesday. We can no longer blame the sat on the government, nor can we blame the politicians for the social inequities in America. The American people finally pushed the lever which sanctioned the was out country has moved in the past several years giving particular countenance to the Indo-Chinese Wars...
...race shaped up as a choice between the Irish incumbent's "old" politics, and the challengers's "new" working-class coalition. Moakley had to battle a lack of exposure as well as the stigma of running on the Independent ticket in a district where voting means pulling the Democratic lever...
...TASK BEFORE THE MOAKLEY people is enormous: they've got to persuade people who for years have walked into a voting booth and automatically pulled the Democratic lever that (a) there are other candidates on the ballot and (b) voting for an Independent is not a mortal sin. To do this, Moakley volunteers have canvassed the district and plan to be at every poll passing out information tomorrow...
...knows? This may well be the election year that local politicos get the lever, but presidential candidates wind up with the limp lip. It just might happen...