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...most telling stories of the 1972 elections come from the voter statistics of Pat Caddell '72, McGovern's chief pollster. Those statistics show that in 19 of the 42 states which had either gubernatorial or senatorial elections, more people voted for those secondary offices than for the president. In other words, many people went to vote, but did not bother to vote for either of the candidates for president. In 23 states the total combined votes for the presidential candidates was less than in 1968, despite the new youth vote. While the percentage of those eligible to vote who actually...
More liberal Fellows include Anne Wexler, director of the Democratic National Committee's voter registration drive; Jack Walsh, organization director for Boston Mayor Kevin H. White; Robert M. Shrum, chief speechwriter for Senator George S. McGovern; and John J. Buckley, sheriff of Middlesex County...
...were Rep. John Businger (D-Brookline), a member of the Ligislature's Committee on Election Laws; James McDaniel, an assistant in the Civil Rights Division of the Attorney General's office; James Caragianes, chairman of the Democratic City Committee; and David E. Sullivan, coordinator of the Cambridge Committee for Voter Registration...
Both Connally and Goldwater agreed that Watergate's repercussions were wider than the G.O.P. Wrote the Arizona Senator: "The reverberations of scandal and corruption will shoot through both major parties and create real trouble for incumbents." A Gallup poll found that while voter identification with the Republican Party has dropped four points since the 1972 election, to 24%, those who said they were Democrats has stayed at 43%. The only increase has been among those who consider themselves members of neither party...
Once a candidate reaches one-tenth of the vote, the remainder of his ballots are transferred to the marked second choices and so on. Sometimes there are 30 candidates and a voter has the option of marking his preference all the way of the last name on the ballot. Understanda bly, the counting of votes takes up the better part of a week or longer...