Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of Richard Nixon's election, speculation inevitably focused on the impact that his narrow victory would have on his ability to govern. Lacking a popular majority, or even a respectable edge over Hubert Humphrey, would he be hamstrung by an opposition Congress and hounded by his always numerous critics? The answer is likely to be: not for a while. After a year of crises and threats of more to come, the nation and the world seem eager for a respite. Moreover, the U.S. has long had a tradition of forbearance toward a new President: a willingness...
...Harris poll last week showed that 79% of the nation favors electoral reform. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh has scheduled Senate subcommittee hearings for January on a constitutional amendment providing for direct popular election of the President and Vice President. New York's Emanuel Celler will hold similar hearings in the House. "We have flirted," said Bayh, "with the most dangerous constitutional crisis faced by the United States in a long time...
Richard Nixon's thin margin of popular votes widened only slightly as late returns and absentee ballots were totted up last week. He might console himself that his 324,966 plurality amounted to nearly three times the 118,574-vote figure by which John Kennedy defeated him eight years ago. Yet with 31,085,267 popular votes to Humphrey's 30,760,301, Nixon still claimed merely 43.5% of the electorate's approval - the lowest percentage since Woodrow Wilson, battling both Republican William Howard Taft and Bull Mooser Teddy Roosevelt, won with 41.9% of the vote...
Wallace won 9,674,802 popular votes...
...extraordinary and possibly outrageous that the President and Vice President are the only two elected officials in the U.S. who are not chosen by direct popular ballot. Yet no matter how acute the need for reform, the prospects are discouraging. Americans overwhelmingly favor change now, but as new crises develop, they are likely to forget about the problem until some future presidential contest again threatens to capsize the election system. More important, smaller states are certain to reject an amendment that would severely diminish their importance. Since a constitutional amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states as well...