Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conference for New Political Action, a dissident Democrat's group, hopes to show widespread voter disenchantment over the three major Presidential candidates with a straw poll in scattered Massachusetts precincts Tuesday...
...Eugene J. McCarthy and Dick Gregory will be listed on the "Freedom Poll" ballot along with the major candidates. Space for write-ins will be provided...
...Nearly 3000 students--about 50 per cent of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--responded to the poll. Eldridge Cleaver, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate, came in fourth with five per cent of the vote, followed by Eugene McCarthy, who received about four per cent. George Wallace placed last among the major candidates, getting 1.7 per cent...
...poll results contrast sharply with the 1960 CRIMSON university-wide poll, in which Nixon received 39 per cent of the votes--30 per cent more than this year, while John F. Kennedy '40 got 56 per cent. In 1960 only five per cent did not choose major party candidates, while this year that figure has risen to about 25 per cent. 1960 was the first year in memory that a Democrat received an absolute majority in the poll...
Half of the East's undefeated major college teams will be in Harvard Stadium Saturday when fourth-ranked Harvard hosts sixth-ranked Penn in the fourth Ivy contest for each team...