Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poll watchers from the Globe reported a disappointingly small turnout a new voters although exact statistics are not yet available...
Poll watchers from the Globe reported a disappointingly small turnout of new voters although exact statistics are not yet available...
...registered elders did so. It was the same in a special state senate election in Southern California last month. Of the registered 18-to-20-year-olds polled, no less than 78% voted, against 48% of the total registered voters. Many prognosticators hold that the strength of the youth turnout in 1972 will depend largely on the candidates. If the major parties offer what the young would see as a tweedledum-tweedledee choice between Nixon and a Humphrey, they would be even more turned off than their elders. But if the Democrats put up an inspiring candidate, the young will...
Campaign Manager William H. Guenther '72, resplendent in his new; shorter haircut, beamed as he looked around at the large turnout and watched his candidate move...
...turnout reflected APAC's burgeoning impact. The first election, in 1968, drew a dismal 52 voters. This year 1,628 North Enders went to the polls. Many of them had made no use of new APAC-sponsored facilities (a Head Start nursery, a softball diamond, and even a local theater), but they recognized APAC's importance as a community force. Said Margaret D'Ambrosio, a middle-aged housewife, as she left the polls: "They never had meetings and things like this when we were kids growing up. I don't go to meetings now myself...