Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build on his own base of support. As the highest vote-getter in the 1971 City Council election and with a 14-year record in the Massachusetts legislature, Moakley began the campaign with a sizeable constituency. And Senator Bob Cawley's redistricting scheme added Moakley supporters to the voter rolls...
John Kerry, national superstar of the antiwar movement, was supposed to win it all in the Fifth. He has all the ingredients needed in a successful candidate. He is young, rich aggressive ruggedly handsome, personable, and a Democrat, Especially a Democrat. On voter registration polls the Massachusetts Fifth District is two-to-one Democratic and it includes traditional Democratic strongholds in the urban areas of Lowell and Lawrence...
...Richard Nixon spends $45 million and gets reelected, it will have cost 34? per eligible voter. If George McGovern wins by spending $22 million, he gets the White House for only 17? per voter. Not too long ago, local yokels were paid $5 per vote, and that was just in the primary. Either the courthouse is worth a lot more than the White House, or wholesale is still cheaper than retail...
...Governor Donald Dwight the state campaign chairman had hoped the large voter turnout would bode well for the Nixon campaign in the state Commenting that Nixon supporters in Massachusetts were complacent and more easily discouraged by bad weather than the hard core McGovern devotees he predicted early in the evening that yesterday's fair weather would bring about a heavier than expected turnout among Nixon voters...
...lawsuit filed by Civil Liberties Union lawyer John Reinstein, asks the court to rule that Cambridge must register any eligible student voter who considers Cambridge to be his place of residence. Bennett postponed the trial until both sides have time to prepare their testimonies...