Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced five wins without a defeat in California primary and general elections. In a state where campaigns are largely electronic, he is by far the superior TV performer. He has the endorsement of the largest G.O.P. volunteer organization, the fealty of most of the Federated Republican Women, who supply precinct shoe leather. Beginning this Wednesday, he can devote complete attention to California, stumping by day and still sleeping in his Pacific Palisades bed at night. Ford's own lieutenants admit that his support is lukewarm and concentrated among moderates with erratic voting habits. Reagan's hard conservative core...
Lipset and Ladd observe in the Chronicle of Higher Education that they cannot apply the same yardstick to the entire population-highly educated voters tend to be much more fixed and consistent than other groups in their beliefs. But, says Lipset, "If I were a Democratic precinct worker and wanted to get people to the polls who are sympathetic to my candidate, I'd pick houses with foreign cars in front...
...Consultant Richard Scammon put the blame on "a heavier switch than we'd anticipated in rural areas." ABC'S Walter Pfister shrugged it off as "a fluke, an anomaly." All three networks base their projections on a model-precinct system. When the results of those precincts are analyzed, they are supposed to give an accurate projection for a state. But ABC and NBC, in their haste to post a winner, took a gamble when the race was too close to call. At the time ABC projected Udall, the News Election Service (see following story), which supplies the networks...
Down Chicago's State Street in their annual show of strength moved some of the biggest wheels in the nation's most powerful political machine. It was the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, but regardless of ethnic, racial or religious stripe, practically every precinct captain, ward committeeman and patronage worker was there. At the head of the throng-which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched...
From city hall, the word went out to many of the machine's 25,000 patronage workers: turn out the votes for Hewlett or lose your city job. The ward committeemen got the message, and so did the precinct captains, who perform every service from bailing kids out of jail to helping faithful Daley followers find city jobs to assuring that garbage pickups and street repairs are made. On election day, the precinct captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked...