Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep Disquiet. Goldwater won the presidential nomination by arduously cultivating support at the precinct and county levels. By the time the convention got started last week, his hard work had already paid off, and he had more than enough delegates to assure him of a first-ballot nomination...
Please print your name and address clearly so that we can get your wheel to you quickly. You can be the first in your precinct to have all the election facts at your finger tips...
...predictions of defeat. Theirs was a limited vantage point. What they missed was the fact that while Rockefeller carried his organization around with him, Goldwater's, as masterminded by Los Angeles Attorney Bernard Brennan, was much larger, infinitely more zealous, and was hard at work in almost every precinct in the state...
...polls closed. NBC came back strong, was first in Illinois by 55 minutes and Oregon by 22 minutes, only to lose out again, by four minutes, to CBS in Maryland. To cover California's primary, NBC has signed up 34,000 people to gather fast returns at the precinct level, mostly members of the Mormon Relief Society, which supplied volunteers in exchange for NBC's $10,000 donation. ABC has mustered 32,000, mostly members of the California Teachers Association. CBS loftily professed to be above the numbers game; Said a spokesman: "We think it is better...
...winning margin came from Baltimore's Jewish and Negro areas. The city's Fifth District, home of 80% of Baltimore's 90,000 Jews, gave Brewster 39,000 votes, Wallace 9,000. The lopsided results were much the same in black Baltimore. In 17 Negro precincts, Wallace got not a single ballot. Eighty-seven Negro boxes gave the Alabamian fewer than six votes per precinct against a total of 18,765 for Brewster...