Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both John and Robert Kennedy. In their collaborative book, The Advance Man, Speechwriter Jeff Greenfield describes Bruno: "He is built like a fire hydrant; he has the tact of a pulling guard; when confronted by a local official standing between him and the prospect of a large turnout, he can be something less than pleasant...
...political technology, a combination of sophisticated polling techniques and computerization that has already met with startling success. Employing such methods, Hubert Humphrey won re-election to the Senate in 1970 by one of the largest margins of his career; in a year when voter totals were down, the turnout in Democratic districts in Minnesota rose from 7% to 20%. Similarly, Senator Quentin Burdick of North Dakota was thought to be in a close race, but he turned to the technologists and won by almost a 2-to-l margin. In Nashville, Tenn., skeptical but desperate backers of former Senator Albert...
...devises it. In addition, last month's state and local elections revealed that blacks do not necessarily vote as a bloc. Stokes' hand-picked successor in Cleveland was defeated, as were 233 of the 284 blacks who ran for office in Mississippi. Moreover, black voter turnout was far below expectations in many areas. Some black politicians have concluded that a national campaign is premature. They would prefer to see the funds and energy spent on grass-roots organizing -voter education and canvassing, and turning out the vote on Election...
Evers had built a strong organization in the third Congressional District (of which Copiah is a part) following the 1964 Democratic National Convention. In 1967 he produced an 85 per cent turnout in the twelve counties in the district. He was also able to elect three-quarters of the blacks who won local office. In 1968 he ran in a special election to fill the Congressional Seat of Governor John Bell Williams. He won the first primary against six white opponents but was forced to face a runoff because he had not won a majority. He lost the runnoff...
With a presidential election year coming up, both Republicans and Democrats are bidding for the votes of the elderly. And they do vote: of the 20 million Americans over 65, nearly 70% cast ballots in the 1968 presidential election, compared with a 61% turnout by the electorate as a whole. Moreover, voters over 50 gave Nixon 47% of their votes in 1968, enough to make the difference between victory and defeat then and just possibly again...