Word: slated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy slate won the May 7 primary defeating a pro-Humphrey slate. Under the Rev. Channing E. Phillips the D.C. anti-Administration--and to a large extent progressive black--forces have taken control of the party. The Phillips leadership will probably join the new Democratic Coalition...
...Each slate of electors is equal in number to the total of the state's U.S. Senators and Representatives, a device that grants small states the same disproportionate share of influence that they obtain from their two Senate votes. New York, with a population 50 times that of Nevada, has only 14 times as many electoral votes. Laws in each state award all its electoral votes to the statewide winner, no matter how large or small his plurality. The winner-take-all device applies whether the popular vote is light or heavy, and in the "one-party states...
...more bitterly disputed challenge, Georgia was ordered-and refused-to split its 43 convention votes between the regular delegations and a liberal, mostly pro-McCarthy slate. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, a declared candidate for the presidency, refused to accept the ruling and vowed to fight. Ironically, Maddox is likely to wind up without a seat and, possibly, without a single vote for his candidacy...
...side in his effort to mollify the followers of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. Last week a group of party leaders proposed a Southern running mate for Humphrey, mentioning seven prospects by name.* Humphrey preferred to remain politely vague. Nonetheless, in Mississippi he is backing the biracial insurgent delegate slate, a direct slap at the old-time leaders. And last week he coined the term Nixiecrat to disparage Nixon's association with conservative Southerners like Thurmond, who led the Dixiecrat revolt...
...conventions are over, that situation will change rapidly. Millions now growl: "I don't like any of them." By Labor Day, they will have a clear choice between two major-party candidates rather than among the current profusion of possible Presidents. Rockefeller talks of a "clean break, a clean slate and a clean start." Those are words of challenge. But each of the candidates, in his own way, is after the same thing. For the chief challenge to each is not so much to defeat his nearest rival as the task of finding a solution to what ails the nation...