Word: turnout
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This article emphasized the worst elements of Southie and ignored the positive factors that give rise to a tightly-knit community. The authors failed to comment on such things as the extremely high electoral turnout that the politically active people of South Boston continually demonstrate. Strong community and religious involvement keep this neighborhood alive. If this style of journalism had been written about a black community, it would have been justly labelled as racist in that it stereotyped a community. The only difference is that Messrs. deMilo and Levenson are stereotyping a white working-class community instead of a black...
...could Carter take pleasure in all of his own party's winners. California Governor Jerry Brown, who defeated Carter in three primaries in 1976, was re-elected by a whopping 1.3 million votes, though the turnout was modest. The landslide gave him a strong boost toward a 1980 presidential...
...Voter turnout in Harvard area precincts was moderate to heavy yesterday, with about 55 per cent turnout reported by 7:30 p.m., a significant increase over the turnout in the last gubernatorial election four years ago, Edward J. Samp, one of Cambridge's four election commissioners, said yesterday...
...martyrs, both of whom are used to suffering. Meanwhile, Duryea, one of the legislature's most deceptively conservative spokesmen, looks like a good bet: he leads most recent polls by about 2 per cent overall, but by 6 per cent among those likely to vote. Barring an unusually heavy turnout, Hugh Carey will be packing by the middle of this week...
During the past two years, RUS participation was at an all-time low; rarely did races develop in House elections, freshman participation was infrequent, and several Houses were totally without representation. Thus this year's turnout constitutes a notable improvement. This is especially true considering last spring's change in the Constitution, which created several new seats in the Legislature. The vacancies that did occur were almost all freshman seats...