Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ticket splitting throughout the nation prevented the Nixon landslide from shaking the Democrat's control of Congress. As of 2 a.m. the Republicans appeared to have gained 15 seats in the House and one in the Senate...
...sure, in a growing age of independent voters there probably exists a cutoff point for ticket splitters. If Nixon can get past that point, then he might carry his entire party to victory. But Nixon has been doing almost no personal campaigning. Moreover, he and his staff have often denied party subalterns the money to work their own magic. While Nixon's Committee for the Re-Election of the President has to scratch its head to think of ways to spend its anticipated $45 million budget (bugging the Watergate was apparently one idea), the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee...
Some Republicans actually fear that Nixon has hurt more than helped. His wellpublicized, well-financed drive to enlist Democrats for Nixon, they believe, will bring out a lot of ticket splitters who might otherwise have stayed home. Renegade Democrats, they argue, are likely to feel guilty about voting Republican at the top of the ticket and will atone by casting penance votes for other Democrats...
...presenting the beleaguered vice-presidential candidate and Jack Anderson, his chief tormentor, on the same program. But that day Meet the Press interviewed Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood and Deputy Chairman Basil Paterson, who said that "it would be a noble thing" for Eagleton to resign from the Democratic ticket. That not-at-all casual remark undermined Eagleton's position and made his effort on Face the Nation irrelevant...
...SOCIALIST WORKERS Party is trying again this year Two years ago its Boston mayoral candidate, John Powers, got 1700 votes. With a presidential ticket on the ballot in 25 states, and candidates here for the U.S. Senate and two Congressional seats, the SWP hopes to pick up "quite a few votes." Powers, now the Eighth District Congressional candidate, said last week...