Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of students, however, seem to think pumpkin carvings, ice cream orgies, donuts, cider and pinball go better with booze. It is basically an unhealthy attitude to believe any social function has to include booze, but the alcohol is just about the only ingredient to ensure a regular House turnout. Holding a weekly cider hour might go over in Tenafly but in Cambridge, weekly happy hours lubricate even the most trivial house functions. Alcohol is no doubt a social crutch, but it is also one ingredient most people in a House will draw around...
Pundits labeled the contest the Battle of the Buses. The two sides vied as fiercely for vehicles as they did for voters, since the turnout had been forecast at only about 40,000 of the state's 2.8 million Democrats and, as Kennedy Operative Diane Abrams put it, "One bus may well make the difference." Not only buses but vans, cars and even funeral-home limousines were chartered for the vote. The Carter team claimed an early victory: 500 to 600 buses to the Kennedy camp...
Given the small turnout that is expected, as few as 100 votes could decide many of the contests, even in the big counties. In any event, no matter who wins the caucuses, President Carter is the heavy favorite to carry the straw vote in November, because his followers dominate the party machinery and hold most of the elective offices. Of 135 seats at the convention already assigned by party executive committees, Carterites claim they have all but ten. Said Carter volunteer Chip Ford of Miami of the caucus results: "Who is to say who has won? The true meaning...
Municipal officials yesterday predicted a light turnout, regardless of weather conditions. In the 1975 preliminary election, about 40 per cent of Boston's 250,000 eligible voters went to the polls...
Sullivan adds that he isn't too unhappy about the low student turnout. "They're only here a short while, and I don't think they should be straddling us with things they have no real interest...