Word: turnout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week's undergraduate referendum on reform of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities showed clearly that students are dissatisfied with the CRR's present structure and procedures. Although the turnout in the referendum was disappointingly small----only about 1000 students voted----over 90 per cent of the students agreed that the CRR must be reformed, and approved four specific proposals for change...
...crossed over to vote in the Republican primary. Texas voters do not register their party affiliation, and are free to vote in either primary when they arrive at the polls. Tower's analysis was correct: over 400,000 voters participated in the GOP primary, almost triple the highest turnout the party has ever had. These were people who normally vote in the Democratic primary, but were disappointed with the pickings on the Democratic ballot and switched parties to vote for Reagan. Not surprisingly, Senator Tower was miffed at his party's primary being decided by Democrats...
...good reason, that the primary proves Reagan's appeal to Democratic and independent voters, who would be essential to a Republican victory in November. Reagan supporters can point to statements like that made by one Ford sympathizer who had forebodings of doom when it became clear that the GOP turnout was huge: "No Democrat would ever cross over to vote for Gerald Ford...
...voters seek to escape fevered controversy, there are also positive qualities in the prevailing mood. Even though only a third of the voters tell Gallup pollsters that they are thinking "a lot" about the election, the primary voting turnout is only slightly down from 1972. Rather than abandoning politics, voters seem to be demanding more from the candidates...
...message, and so did the precinct captains, who perform every service from bailing kids out of jail to helping faithful Daley followers find city jobs to assuring that garbage pickups and street repairs are made. On election day, the precinct captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked off against neighborhood lists those people who showed up at the polls. By midafternoon, if a "safe" voter had not shown up, a runner was dispatched to bring him in before closing time...