Word: voters
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...major victory that reflected voter frustration with ordinary politics and ordinary politicians, Republican S.I. Hayakawa ousted Democrat John Tunney from his U.S. Senate seat. When the tart-tongued Hayakawa takes the oath of office next January, he will be-at 70 -one of the oldest freshman Senators in the history of the Senate...
Approximately 3600 registered voters reside in the portion of the city of Burlington that Smith represents. "If a voter doesn't know me personally, he is apt to know a relative of mine," Smith said last week...
Smith said that he would not have entered politics in a community where the campaign and the voter-relationships were not "low-profile." "In Vermont, we have a healthy brand of politics, and when you put your head on the block, it's really nice to win," he said...
Those figures help explain why the voter turnout may prove critical. The percentage of eligible voters casting ballots had declined from 63.1% in 1960 to 55.4% in 1972. With no Viet Nam War or counterculture turmoil to sharpen the difference between the candidates, some experts predict that only half the nation's 150 million eligible voters will care enough to go to the polls...
...Then, too, if Carter is defeated, the Democrats' party leadership will be up for grabs. Potential Democratic candidates for the presidency in 1980-men like Senators Edward Kennedy and Fritz Mondale and Congressman Mo Udall-can be expected to sponsor bills to catch the fancy of the American voter. Ford probably would fight many of them, and Tip O'Neill, for one, doubts that the Democrats -despite their strength-would have the votes to override presidential vetoes. Says O'Neill: "Are we going into that frustration again? That anxiety? And more of the same old stalemate...