Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November's off-year congressional elections follow the pattern, little more than half (55.4%) of the nation's eligible voters will bother to show up at the polls. They should reflect on the example of the Albanian electorate. According to the Albanian news agency, exactly 100% of the country's voters turned out last week to elect representatives to the People's Assembly, local councils and the courts. Every single voter chose the Communist Party's slate of candidates. Actually, it was a cliff-hanger compared to the Soviet election in which Joseph Stalin, possibly...
This would be preferable to a two-vote system-in which the voter indicates first, second, and third choices-because in the run-off system "the second choices are made more by the politician than by the voter...
...with says nothing; he was paid only to walk and listen. In New York, intimate close-ups in a series of ten-second spots work at two levels for Senator Charles Goodell, who is behind in the race. On the surface, they are intended simply to increase voter recognition. More important perhaps, the camera looks him full in the eye, close up, portraying him as an independent of firmly held, clear beliefs. They do not refer overtly to one of his problems-the charge that he has adopted liberalism only lately out of expediency-but they are intended to neutralize...
...shape images on paid political commercials insist that the voter has an adequate protection against their arts in the appearance of the candidate on television news shows, interviews and debates. "We don't have to show the warts," Joe Napolitan says. "They'll come out in the unpaid. The paid and the unpaid are different." There is some validity to the claim, for instance, that the display of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's demagogic qualities is an example of television's ability to reveal the truth about...
...Much of the excitement and publicity of those early voting drives is gone, but the campaign has continued - quietly, tediously, but effectively, and with considerable agony for blacks threatened with loss of jobs or welfare benefits if they sign up to vote. In the past four years,510 separate voter-registration campaigns, costing $2,000 each, have been conducted among blacks in the eleven Southern states. They contributed to the addition of 1,740,000 blacks to the voting rolls. More significantly, while only one-third of all voting-age blacks were registered in the seven states covered...