Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advocates of the bottle bill should not give up. On Tuesday, similar bills passed in other states, and the slim margin of defeat here shows that it is far from impossible to pass the bill in Massachusetts...
...only progressive legislation that passed was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and even that had some problems. But when the final tallies were in, the ERA had passed by a three-to-two margin...
Opponents of uniform electric rates did a good job spreading their view that the state would lose many jobs if everyone paid the same rate for electricity. The electorate, wary of hurting the economy, rejected this referendum by nearly a three-to-one margin...
...Graham lost by about 900 votes in a rain-dampened, lowturnout election. This time she was better organized, better financed, and took 56 per cent of the vote, winning by an 1800-vote margin...
Last Thursday a WBZ-TV poll showed the grad tax behind by 41 per cent to 28 per cent, a solid margin for defeat. Another question asked in the poll, however, sheds more light on the referendum process. According to Bob Duboff of Decision Research, Inc., the company that conducted the poll, pollees were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: "The graduated income tax is an additional tax." The pollees were divided equally in their responses. Duboff says there is always so much confusion about the referenda that "you just don't know how much knowledge...