Word: voter
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...strength of some indicators, Callaghan would seem to have little cause for seeking the delay. The latest polls show Labor running only slightly behind the Tories in voter approval, 47% to 45%, a vastly improved standing from that of only a year ago. Yet Callaghan and some of his closest advisers were not so sure. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, in particular, warned the Prime Minister "not to go for the first patch of blue sky." His reasoning: there is a good chance that Britain's economic recovery, notably a decline in inflation from 26% a year...
With primary elections scheduled for Tuesday, candidates in the Massachusetts senatorial primary have stepped up their campaigns in face of reports of voter apathy...
Recent polls report that 28 to 38 per cent of Democratic voters are undecided about the five-candidate Senate race. The large number of undecided voters is apparently due to extreme voter apathy and alienation, Dennis Kanin '68, manager of Rep. Paul Tsongas' (D.-Mass.) campaign said yesterday. "It's hard to tell what will happen," Lou Dinatale, Campaign manager for State Secretary Paul Guzzi '64, said yesterday...
Despite the candidate's efforts, voter turnout is predicted to be low. "There doesn't seem to be as much interest in political races as in past years," Kanin said...
...there the comparison ends. Where Skeffington is a symbol, the healthiest specimen around of the classic Irish pol, Levine is very much a human being, his own man rather than the property of every voter who happens to own a brogue or a pug nose...