Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical, painstaking nuts-and-bolts approach that he had learned at the precinct, city and county levels. There are, he says, two kinds of state chairmen-the "road chairman," who goes around expounding his party's philosophy, and the "office chairman," who plans and executes practical programs of political action. Bliss is very much an office chairman. "I'm not going to waste my time making speeches," he says. "There's a million guys who can make a better speech than I can." He normally spends his working day, from 10 a.m. to about 1 a.m., seated...
...most interesting. Anchorman Walter Cronkite never cronked better, their Precinct Profile Analysis matched NBC's Dewline, and there was an easygoing rapport in the air as Cronkite nonchalantly tossed the ball to Eric Sevareid, Harry Reasoner, David Schoenbrun or Charles Collingwood. ABC hugely improved its coverage and managed to run a poor third, giving too much time to dull human analysis while the network's computer was failing to get a word in edgewise...
...These precincts were divided into three groups, according to the amount of campaigning done in each. To everyone's surprise, and perhaps discouragement, in the districts where Hughes workers had campaigned "intensively," the Independent appeared to have only five per cent of the vote. In "non-intensive" wards, however, he often did as well as nine or ten percent. Failure of precinct counters to report Hughes' totals along with those of the major candidates made any predictions of Hughes' strength difficult...
...comprise the entire voting population of Ward 21, Precinct 12, will receive Hughes' campaign statements and questions asking their views on all kinds of world issues...
...with the voting machine.) That night, the end came with merciful speed at 8:32, when an aide handed a slip of paper to Teddy Kennedy's brother-in-law, Steve Smith. "Here's where Knocko lives." he said. It was South Boston's Ward 7. Precinct 5. Knocko had been Democratic leader there for 30 years. The count was Kennedy 396, McCormack...