Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus preserving Humphrey's slim chance to win the state's 43 electoral votes. Yet, in campaigning for antiwar congression?! candidates in California, McCarthy has done nothing to discourage a massive write-in vote for himself. In California, this could cost Humphrey 400,000 popular votes and throw the state's 40 electoral votes to Nixon...
...REASONS for having you throw the election into the House are ultimately pragmatic, if cathartic. There are three. They are numbered...
...purpose, he said, was to urge support for eleven selected Democratic Senate candidates, all foreign policy rationalists and all in varying kinds of electoral trouble this fall. Almost as a throw-away, McCarthy noted that the Senate would be called upon to take the lead against the progressive "militarization" of our foreign policy. It was McCarthy's most trenchant line, but he didn't elaborate...
...example, Ordway recalls the Cornell trip last year. "The Cornell guys literally took over a tavern in Ithaca to throw a party for us, put us up overnight, and even found us dates...
...that insane war-mongering technology with its smog, its super-highways, its experts and its profound dishonesty ... he was tired of hearing of Negro rights and Black power--every Black riot was washing him loose with the rest, pushing him to that point where he would have to throw his vote in with revolution--what a tedious perspective of prisons and law courts and worse ... No, exile would be better. Yet he loathed the thought of living anywhere but America--he was too American by now: he did not wish to walk down foreign streets and think with imperfect nostalgia...