Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the game all but over, Felix Adedeji, frustrated all afternoon, finally connected for a score on the kind of individual effort that is his trademark. Taking a pass in front, Adedeji balanced the ball on his knee, then flipped it in over the goalie for the 5-0 margin...
...year-old vote and the new registration provisions," happily declared Fred Dutton, one of George McGovern's key strategists, last spring. Those moves, Dutton reasoned, would enable McGovern to pick up a net gain of some 13 million youthful voters over the Republicans and provide the margin of victory against Richard Nixon in November. Last week Dutton and the entire McGovern campaign received another rude jolt from the polls. George Gallup reported that those millions of young voters actually favor the re-election of President Nixon by an astounding margin...
...that the political views of 1,094 youths in the 18-through-25 age category show a much narrower gap between the candidates than does Gallup. Nevertheless, Nixon leads 51% to 44.5%. As expected, McGovern holds a large lead (59.9% to 43.3%) among college students, and Nixon's margin is almost precisely the same (51.1% to 35.4%) among youths not in school. The fact that of the 25 million potential new voters, about 18 million are not on a campus gives Nixon his overall lead. Yet the tenuousness of that advantage is illustrated by another Gilbert finding: an impressive...
Toomey retained his seat by piling up a 505-vote margin over Vellucci in Wards...
This year, Hicks won the primary by a three to two margin over second place finisher Senator Robert Cawley (D-W. Roxbury) who masterminded the redistricting in the State House. Although Cawley drew the Congressional district boundaries to include most of his present district, he could only manage 26 per cent of the vote to Hicks's 39 per cent. The third place finisher. James W. Hennigan, the Boston School Committee chairman, did poorly, getting 21 per cent of the vote...