Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposes Eugene McCarthy for Vice President, and again the nomination is unanimously approved. In the evening, Rockefeller and McCarthy appear together on the platform. Rocky acknowledges the cheers with repeated winks, then cries: "Let the new politics continue from this day forward!" McCarthy predicts that "the Fusion Party will sweep to victory in November...
...sweep that exceeded even the most optimistic Gaullist forecasts, the voters rallied to the party of Charle de Gaulle and his allies. Gaullist and Gaullist-lining forces won 43.7% of 22.5 million votes v. 37.7% in last year's National Assembly elections. In the first round of voting, their candidates won outright majorities in 142 constituencies and thus were elected to the Assembly without having to undergo a runoff round. By contrast, the major non-Gaullist parties all suffered setbacks. Receiving its worst drubbing in a decade, the French Left lost 1,250,000 votes to the Gaullists, watched...
...fate," French Premier Georges Pompidou once said, "is to be President of the Republic -or leader of the opposition." If last week's election results could not quite guarantee Pompidou his first choice, they certainly lessened his chances of ever having to settle for the second. The Gaullist sweep among France's voters-and the turn of events that led to it-have clearly made Pompidou the President's indispensable second-in-command and undisputed heir apparent. "My signature," De Gaulle calls him, and now that seems to carry the imprimatur of succession...
Hawaii (26): A clean sweep likely for H.H.H...
...Republican side, Nixon is in an even stronger position because he has combined effective courtship of delegates in non-primary states with a sweep of the primaries. Oregon was his most impressive win of all. More than in Nebraska, his absentee rivals, Rockefeller and Reagan, had the benefit of well-financed publicity drives aimed at cutting down Nixon's plurality. Yet Nixon smashed all public and private predictions to amass 73% of the vote, compared with 23% for Reagan, who was on the ballot, and a 4% write-in for Rockefeller...