Word: voters
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...Goldberg may have seemed the perfect man to halt Rockefeller's march to a fourth term; he seems considerably less so in October. He has just barely managed to stay in close contention. He has been handicapped by factors he cannot alter: a shift to the right in voter sentiment and a personal campaign style that has changed in the course of four months from disastrous to mediocre. But if he does not excite the voters, he clearly gets their respect as he makes his rounds in three-button suit (all buttoned and a flag pin in the lapel...
Strange Bedfellows. Spiraling expenses notwithstanding, Educational Consultant Nickolaus Engelhardt believes that simple ignorance is responsible for the majority of bond-issue and budget rebuffs. The expenses are not so awesome, he contends, if they are carefully explained and justified to the voter...
Reporters examining Boston voter registration records Thursday night discover that William Gilday, another suspect in the robbery, registered to vote at a street corner registration booth less than two hours after the Sept. 22 hold-up. "Gilday talked to the other clerk about the charms of Rye Beach," one of the registrars said. Rye Beach was the first stop on Gilday's wild chase through Massachusetts and New Hampshire the week before...
Young started a voter registration drive in Thomasville, Ga., only to have counterdemonstrating Ku Klux Klan members thwart his campaign. When the civil rights movement gained momentum in the early '60s, Young joined King and the S.C.L.C...
Boosting Debates. The major provision limits a candidate's expenditures for air time in a general election to 7? for each vote cast for the office in the last contest. The ceiling is 3½? a voter in primaries, but presidential and vice presidential candidates are exempt from the primary limitation. In the next presidential election, therefore, the candidates will each be permitted to spend $5.1 million for radio and TV air time. In 1968, Nixon spent $12.7 million and Hubert Humphrey $6.1 million...