Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote proceeded, Stearns, who was sitting in the trailer outside, warned Hart on the floor that the count looked uncomfortably close. With that, McGovern's aides began shaving their total, pulling votes away from the women's position in order to make their challenge lose by a sufficient margin. Humphrey's forces?and some TV commentators?at first read the tallies as an indication that McGovern was in serious trouble. From the floor...
McGovern would probably have won anyway; enough delegates had defected to McGovern to give him a startling margin on California even without the parliamentary maneuvering. When the California debate opened just after midnight. California Co-Chairman Willie Brown Jr. shouted: "Give me back my delegation!" Chants of "Give it back! Give it back!" were answered by cries of "No! No! No!" The brief outburst, one of the convention's few emotional displays, was hardly nec essary. It was the last gasp of the stop-McGovern forces. In the final tally, 1,618.28 votes favored giving McGovern back...
...expenditure during the primary fights of the campaign year. O'Brien would be a key broker and troubleshooter in case the convention finds itself in deadlock. He showed much foresight in scheduling the event for July, earlier than the 1968 convention, in order to provide the largest possible margin of time in which to heal the wounds of Miami Beach before the election...
...years his junior. She is Elizabeth Holtzman, a Harvard Law School graduate who mounted one of the most persistent campaigns against Celler in the history of the highly political area. With 35,000 voting, Miss Holtzman edged out the venerable chairman of the House Judiciary Committee by an unofficial margin of 562 votes...
...Slim Margin. The margin for miscalculation is perilously thin. A study by predominantly Democratic economists at the Brookings Institution concluded that by fiscal 1975, President Nixon's existing and proposed programs would produce a deficit of $17 billion, even if the economy was operating at full employment. So much red ink in a fully employed economy could be grossly inflationary. A rise in living costs could quickly make necessary an income of more than $4,000 to pull an urban family of four out of poverty...