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...Daniel. Home from Washington to run for the job he had always wanted, he easily outdistanced five other hopefuls, led his nearest opponent, oft-defeated Austin Attorney Ralph Yarborough, by 165,000 (TIME, Aug. 6). But Daniel did not get a majority of the votes, was forced into a runoff primary with Yarborough, and that was a different story. Yarborough picked up support from the candidates who had fallen in the first primary; after a wild race to the wire, Daniel won by only one-fourth of 1% of the total vote...
...proportion as its total popular vote. This favors the big mass parties like the Socialists and Communists.¶ Man-for-Man Voting. This is basically the U.S. method of election by small electoral district (there are 311 arron dissements). If no candidate wins an absolute majority, there is a runoff one week later. This encourages voting for the man instead of the party, favors parties of "notables," such as the Radicals. ¶The Alliance System. The system now in effect, it was devised by the center parties in 1951 to cut down the strength of extreme right and left. Elections...
...that, with the rain pelting down on the white schoolhouse, the meeting ended. No one of the five candidates is expected to get the majority vote necessary for nomination, and Mississippi pundits last week had no clear choices as to which two will manage to get into the runoff primary. For Mississippi voters there was no clear choice...
...group of faculty and class committee members will choose about five of the best orations in each category for a final runoff contest. In this, each contestant must deliver his oration so that the judges can also consider his speaking ability...
Once more the dynamic little Premier had confronted Assembly politicians with an uncomfortable decision. The Communists can be expected to fight with bared teeth against a direct-voting law, which makes it possible for the anti-Communists to band together and beat a Communist in runoff elections. The other big parties like Catholic M.R.P. and the Socialists, which depend more on doctrine than on local appeal, are not confident enough of the strength of their individual candidates to cheer for the change. For Mendès-France and his followers, however, the change seems a way to upset party strangle...