Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tuesday the citizens of Massachusetts voted on an amendment to the state constitution which would have led to tax cuts for 85 per cent of them. For the fourth time, they defeated this measure, this year by a two to one margin...
There was also in key Northern states like New York the partial return of urban ethnic and Catholic voters after the defection over McGovern. The heavily Catholic Queens borough of New York City gave Carter a margin 10 per cent greater than Humphrey received in 1968. The South Side of Milwaukee was largely responsible for Carter's surprising win in Wisconsin; the mainly Polish, Lithuanian and South Slav voters of that area gave him a vote upwards of 55 per cent...
...poll, which questioned voters leaving polling places yesterday, found a 62-34 per cent margin for Carter among voters with family incomes less than $10,000 a year and a 51-47 per cent edge for the Democrat among voters whose family earns between $10,000 and $25,000 annually. Among voters with incomes higher than this Ford led by a wide margin: 57 per cent...
...YORK--Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government, roared to a decisive victory in the New York Senate race yesterday, upending incumbent James L. Buckley by a margin of about 10 per cent of the total vote...
Carter took New York City by a nearly two-to-one margin but trailed President Ford three-to-two outside of the New York metropolitan area...