Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stirring up the voters, Nixon seemed to forget that his is a minority party-and the high voter turnout worked against him. In several races, the Administration misgauged the independence of many voters, who picked and chose in an unusual display of ticket-splitting. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Never has the American voter so totally thumbed his nose at outside interference, money, buncombe, hate and the lofty lamentations of the pious. Particularly in the last ten days, Nixon's campaign was an appeal to narrowness and selfishness and an insult to the American intelligence. He diminished...
Landau states that, "An estimated 45 per cent of Montreal's eligible voters showed up to cast ballots-an unusually meagre turnout." According to Montreal's Le Presse (lundi, 26 octobre 1970), the turnout was actually 49.8 per cent and this turnout is higher than in any previous civic election of the past decade in which M. Drapeau has been a candidate for mayor-a total of 4 elections. The respective turnouts in 1960, 1962 and 1966 were 41.0, 42.6 and 33.0 per cent. Moreover, because the property qualification for enfranchisement was abolished by the National Assembly in December...
Organizers for the rally had hoped to have a crowd of at least five thousand. Dellinger attributed the poor turnout to a lack of publicity and he way last week's news stories concentrated on the possible Leary visit rather than the purpose of the upcoming rally...
Galbraith said yesterday, "I've opposed the march from the beginning, but I had nothing to do with persuading people not to join in. I was glad to see such a small turnout because it means that the peace movement is taking amore moderate tone and expressing faith in the electoral process...
...committee also announced a "constitutional convention" that will be held in Washington, D. C., at the end of November. A plenary session of the People's Revolutionary Council met in Philadelphia in September to draw up proposals for the convention. Committee members hope for a turnout of 30-50,000 people at the Washington convention...