Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turnout was larger than we expected based on reports from other clinics," Dr. Sholem Postel, associate director of UHS, said yesterday...
Would the slim margin the polls gave Carter translate into a victory? Universally, the nervous pollsters agreed that this depended on the voter turnout. Declared Pollster Louis Harris: "Voter turnout has never before been such a pivotal factor. We have never been so worried about...
Those figures help explain why the voter turnout may prove critical. The percentage of eligible voters casting ballots had declined from 63.1% in 1960 to 55.4% in 1972. With no Viet Nam War or counterculture turmoil to sharpen the difference between the candidates, some experts predict that only half the nation's 150 million eligible voters will care enough to go to the polls...
...could mean a narrow Ford triumph. As a result, while Ford was expected to make a pro forma appeal for all Americans to vote, his forces were more selectively keying their telephone banks and other get-out-the-vote drives to his areas of known strength. Even if the turnout is in the low 50% range, Carter could win a thin popular-vote edge but lose in the Electoral College. More probably, how ever, this would enable Carter to hold a slim popular-vote margin that could translate into a substantial electoral victory. At 55% or better, he is generally...
With about 60 steady members, the novice team is larger this year than it has been in the past. But Huntsman says he is extremely happy about the large turnout because the group is "so energetic...