Word: voter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Implementing its drive to make every veteran a voter, the American Veterans Committee established a voting and registration information table in the Yard in front of Widener yesterday morning and attracted 300 students in its first day of operation...
...academic in Cambridge these Autumn days. With many students of voting age for the first time in University history, gov. lectures and ordinary bull sessions can find practical application in the polling booths on November 2. This year's electorate has a novel newcomer, the student-voter, who can base his choice upon a maximum of principle and a minimum of self-interest. The important reasons for voting are obvious to all, and newspaper and radio should provide the information necessary for the intelligent voter to decide which levers to pull on election...
...absolutely essential," he told them, that the U.S. elect a Congress which is in sympathy with the 1944 Democratic platform. Said he: "I don't see how any voter who thinks at all could vote for the Reece-Taft-Crawford* program. The difficulties with which we are now faced are due in part to the obstructionist tactics of those gentlemen...
...understanding how elections go, the Massachusetts long ballot is perhaps most significant of all. The columnar arrangement so common in other states has never been used, a fact which means that the voter cannot cast a straight party ticket by making a single mark. He must indicate his choice separately for each office; in Presidential years, that task can be onerous even for the most enlightened patriots...
...second place, elections are so easily swung by the floating vote that candidates will employ extreme measures to capture the loyalty of the independent voter. Some speeches this fall will sound like mud-slinging more violent than accurate; others will make you think that the world will explode if whoosis doesn't become the next whatsis. Don't let the fireworks frighten you; as the sociologists would say, they arise from the way the situation is defined...