Word: voter
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Kennedy's strength reflects a sharp decline in voter concern over the incident on the Martha's Vineyard bridge that many thought would ruin his career. Public sentiment could change, of course, if Kennedy became a candidate for President and Chappaquiddick were raised as an issue. But, at this point, only 11% of those surveyed are bothered a lot by the fact that he was at a party with a group of single women on that night in July 1969; only 15% say they are greatly disturbed by his having gone off alone with Mary Jo Kopechne...
...good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents' home in West Islip. Downey is sustained because the people consider him a good guy who works for them...
...Voters in the normally progressive Chicago suburb of Evanston rolled up a 2-to-1 margin against a property-tax increase aimed at providing an extra $2.5 million for elementary schools, which are already running a $700,000 deficit. In Ohio, Republican Governor Jim Rhodes vowed that no school in the state would be closed "even for a day." But officials of Cleveland's public schools, which are $23 million in debt, predicted that voter rejection of emergency taxes would mean that the schools could not operate for more than two weeks next September. Dallas voters had not turned...
Members of the TIME Board of Economists generally share the growing voter sentiment that the total burden of local, state and federal taxes is too high. But a number of those interviewed favor cuts less drastic on a nationwide basis than those called for in California's Proposition 13, which reduces property taxes...
...hell that broke loose that summer in Watts and the poor sections of other American cities made a lasting impression on the millions of Americans who watched the trashing on the six o'clock news. The tension released that summer gets much of the credit for causing the conservative voter anxiety that brought law-and-order candidate Richard Nixon to the White House...