Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pollster Roper missed the actual returns by 1.2%; in 1940 by .6%; in 1944 by .2% (though his survey did not estimate the soldier vote...
...there was any point at all to politicians going through the ritual of campaigning, it was simply to whip up the enthusiasm of local professionals, charged with rounding up the vote. There was no point at all, he asserted, to political pulse-taking after the campaign had started. "It has become a stunt. Like tearing a telephone directory in two, it impresses without instructing...
...vote counting began, Stevenson got a narrow lead; but his backers' jubilation was soon quenched. Twenty-four hours after the polls closed, with 900,000 votes in, he had only an eight-vote margin. Then Johnson passed him, ran up a 717-vote lead...
...more people want to get into it? Last week Indiana University professors took a survey of 1,615 students, and soon found reasons for the lack of interest. Principal objections: 1) low pay; 2) cramped style-students wanted to be able to smoke, drink, date, dance, play cards, speak, vote, and think as they pleased, with or without the approval of a school board...
...block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman Catholic charger. There are twenty million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think and vote as their Church advises...