Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neither candidate lit a fire, that was a fitting next-to-last chapter to the long, dreary pre-convention campaign. The face that started in the snows preceding the Iowa precinct caucuses of Jan. 21 had drawn a crowded field of candidates and in the early going, some surprising turnouts by the voters. But the voters proved remarkably hard to predict. On the Democratic side, Ted Kennedy won the blue-collar and the black vote by a heavy margin in Philadelphia but lost both on April 22 in Pittsburgh, on the opposite side of Pennsylvania. In New York, voters disenchanted...
...People want resident-only parking here--the nearby railroad station means the streets are always clogged," Crehan says. Crehan and his precinct's other representatives to the town meeting will discuss the problem Tuesday at a precinct assembly, but Crehan says the chances for a solution are dim: "A lot of politically powerful people in the town park on our streets...
...vote upstate, the vote in Polish wards, the vote among Catholics." And, on the same day, there was the vote in Connecticut. "There are two main constituencies, Catholics and Yankees. Kennedy had not been doing well with those groups, but in Connecticut he ran phenomenally--he won almost every precinct in New Haven," Orren said...
...Ward 6, Precinct 3, election workers had their share of trouble Tuesday night...
...Ward 8, Precinct 4--Residents of Cronkhite Hall vote at the Parish House at 3 Church...