Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organizing a precinct, writing speeches, talking to voters, doing research, Harvard students virtually ran the Hughes campaign. Some felt close to the voters--they practically lived out at the Columbia Point Housing Project. Going to meetings, on the campaign trail, knocking on doors, hundreds of students got to know some form of politics. In the fullest sense of the word, this was a liberal education...
Reporters in every one of the 50 states talked to, all in all, hundreds of political figures: prospective candidates, possible kingmakers, Senators, Governors, Congressmen, state chairmen and all others right down to the precinct level. Predictably, few of the politicians wanted to put themselves on the record at this time. In most cases, when the conversation was placed on what is known in the trade as a "not-for-attribution" basis, they talked frankly and fully about what they know and think and expect. After thus tapping the flow of political thought, the dozens of correspondents working on the assignment...
Barry Goldwater stood before 150 Republican precinct leaders in Cleveland last week and invited them to ask questions. One began, "Since we have a suspicion you are running for President . . ." Whereupon Goldwater grinned and broke in: "You can suspicion all you darned please, but as of now I'm not a candidate." The politicians broke out in disbelieving laughter, and Barry insisted," I'm not kiddin...
MINNEAPOLIS. Homemade bombs shattered windows at the homes of two white cops. One was a patrolman suspended for 30 days for slugging a Negro with a blackjack. The other was his precinct captain, suspended later for allowing fellow cops to take up a collection to help the patrolman. Negro ministers responded with their own special church collections-to help repair the damage to the two houses...
With a light voter turnout (62,100), it might seem that Democrats had handed the Republicans a victory merely by staying home. But the fact was that in precinct after precinct a sizable share of the Democrats who did turn out voted for Clawson. Gloomily, Democratic Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh summed it up: "The people of this state are not as liberally inclined as some think. The Democratic Party may be a half step out of time with the general ideological feeling of the people...