Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lead editorial in the second issue argues that the voter turnout of only 53 per cent in the last election reveals a vacuum in the electoral arena waiting to be filled by the socialists...
According to the Joint Center, the percentage of voting-age blacks who cast ballots rose from 41% in 1972 to 43% this year. The figure is still below the national turnout of 55%-but high enough to have made the difference in a dozen or so crucial states. To cite only one: in Ohio, Carter won by 7,076 votes; he received 282,000 black ballots (see chart). The massive black majority made the South almost solid for Carter (he lost only Virginia); without it, he would have won only Georgia, Arkansas and Tennessee. Ford won 55% of the white...
...groups, Carter did better. In Rhode Island, which has the highest unemployment rate in the nation (11%), Catholic blue-collar workers, responding to union drives, cast thousands of pocketbook votes for Carter, helping him sweep the state. Said Margaret McKenna, Carter's campaign chairman in Rhode Island: "The turnout was big because the people feared that another term for Ford would have been disastrous for the state. The economy has been in constant decline in Rhode Island, and Ford was blamed for it." Carter also took some 56% of the Irish and about 55% of the Eastern European vote...
...just about as bad as the pollsters had predicted. According to preliminary estimates, some 80 million Americans, or under 54% of the 150 million voting-age citizens in the U.S., took the trouble to step into balloting booths. The turnout in 1972, when the outcome was a foregone conclusion, was 55%. By contrast, 91% of the electorate recently cast ballots in West Germany and 90% in Sweden...
...attempt to avoid a lunch crunch was inspired by an exceptionally large expected student turnout at today's game. Gordon M. Page, manager of the Ticket Office, said yesterday that 8000 tickets have been sold to undergraduates and their guests...