Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Student Mobilization Committee, also operating from Winthrop House and associated with the Work Center, is circulating a petition in Cambridge and nearby areas which would bypass the legislature and place the war referendum on the ballot by voter initiative...
There is some question whether Wallace's earthy brand of ol' time politics will work in Alabama any more. It is becoming more urban and sophisticated. And Brewer has this kind of voter. Crowds come to his rallies mostly in cars, not pickup trucks. His audiences are younger and better-dressed than Wallace's, and many of them resent Wallace's use of the Alabama statehouse apparatus for his national grandstanding...
...relatively good fortune and success in dealing with both a Democratic Congress and the general public, his problems have begun to accumulate rapidly. With the Senate battle, in fact, Nixon could be headed toward a sequel to his 1962 memoirs, Six Crises. The continued toll of inflation on the voter is earning him bad marks. At the same time, the fear of recession is prevalent, and it was not assuaged by last week's announcement that in March the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, the highest since Nixon took office. Labor turmoil in eleven major industries threatens the country...
THIS FUSION of powers-the "efficient secret" which Crossman finds so admirable-leaves the British people defenseless before the government. No Supreme Court, no legislature. The voter must count upon the ideology of the governing party. The heavy programmatic content of British politics, said Crossman, rescues the ministry from the amoral exercise of power. The Godkin Lectures keyed on personal and party power: the ideological restrictions on its use seemed almost an after-thought. But in The New Fabiun Essays, Crossman analyzed the pitfalls of pragmatism. It is direction-less-ideology begins where pragmatism fails. He could say, therefore, without...
...dynamism of mass parties, argued Crossman, originates with the party militants. Curiously, the mass public will be resistant to change. "The middle-the good, common-sense voter-will pull the Cabinet back from drastic change. All the new ideas come from the militant rank and file, who are always out of tune with the majority of the voters and the party leadership...