Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind. The President cannot afford to antagonize Reagan, and yet Ford's advisers say he does not want the Californian on the ticket. He considers Reagan too far to the right to provide the proper ideological balance. But if Ford is nominated by only a skimpy margin, he faces two unappealing options: he can buck the Reagan delegates and dare to pick his own man, or he can throw open the second spot to the convention floor, which will surely regard Reagan favorably...
...Ohio constituents had just renominated him for a 15th House term -the margin over a feeble opponent was much smaller than usual-but Hays' Democratic colleagues gave him a resounding vote of no confidence. They stripped him permanently of the chairmanship of his party's Congressional Campaign Committee, and were ready to dislodge him from his other place of power, the House Administration Committee...
...slim two-point margin kept the Crimson out of third place. San Diego State nailed down that spot with 84 points and Boston University was fourth with 85, one point ahead of the 'Cliffe...
First, the motion to delay passed by only a one-vote margin, in spite of its support from Hartman, who, while anxious to resolve the affair, required more time to prepare a response to the policy panel's report. As he said in a statement to the faculty,"... I have invested far too much time and energy in the appeal to allow it to end in an overly hasty, procedurally defective fashion..." The narrowness of the vote must be taken as a regrettable indication of a desire to be rid of the affair, not to resolve it equitably...
...problem is one of margin. A large majority of the vote would be required to capture the bulk of the 280 delegates under the state party's proportional and balkanized selection rules. Lingering feelings that the freshman Governor needs more experience and that he has neglected the Sacramento store could prove to be minor difficulties. Frank Church, and even Scoop Jackson, may siphon off a few delegates...