Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City's voters reject PR next week, Cambridge politics is in for a long and important transition. At first, most politicians seem to agree that the noticeable changes will be few. The same faces will be around, and most will be able to make, at least, a temporary accommodation to the new system...
...opposing the change with every resource at its command--a good indication that supporters of the civic association feel they have a great deal to lose if PR is tossed out. A look at recent voting figures tells why. The bulwark of the CCA's support lies in Wards 7 and 8--the Brattle Street area--and in city elections, CCA candidates poll only about 40 to 45 per cent of the total vote. With PR, that's good enough to elect respectable delegations to both the Council and the school committee. Under a plurality, only the strongest...
...relish the prospect of plurality. Their comfortable mathematical majorities, which look so convincing on paper, fail to reflect their chief problem: lack of unity. Each independent's quest for votes is an individual matter; he is competing against other independents more than he is working with them. PR, favoring minority votes as it does, encourages this division. But the independents are not only split by the system, but also by temperament, background, and political philosophy...
That's one possibility. But the fact is, that no one will really confidently predict what will happen if PR is abandoned. Many independent elements might tend to go their own way out of pure self-interest or distrust for Sullivan...
...PR is abandoned party politics