Word: voters
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...Chicago McGovern charged that the Republicans were funneling money to groups in the city's Spanish-speaking community to tell people that they had nothing to gain from either party, and thus reduce voter registration. Then McGovern added that four years ago the G.O.P. gave funds to black militants for the same purpose. When reporters asked the basis of his charge, McGovern said that he heard it from "reliable people." What organizations received the money? "I'm not going to divulge that." Finally a reporter suggested that the unsubstantiated allegation smacked of McCarthyism, and McGovern answered: "The difference...
Although Prichard's whites initially held about a 55%-to-45% edge over blacks in voter registration, partly because there are 1,900 more voting-age whites, Cooper and a team of friends managed to add another 2,000 blacks to the voting rolls, closing the gap. At the same time, he so thoroughly denounced Capps for allowing industry to leave the town, roads to deteriorate and police morale to sag that whites felt little incentive to vote at all. Cooper won by 544 votes out of 10,648 cast...
...windfall of a few millions to corporate friends of the Administration. Eight Washington Post reporters tramping throughout the country in search of the elusive national mood discovered the Watergate bugging incident buried beneath other concerns. "Each of us," wrote Haynes Johnson, "could go literally for days of interviewing voters without hearing a single voter voluntarily bring up the Watergate issue...
...postwar history has risen so fast and made so few admirers in the process as Rainer Candidus Barzel. He is almost all a politician should be: intelligent, hardworking, cool under pressure, a first-rate tactician and gifted debater. Yet Barzel suffers from a serious image problem. In voter preference polls, he badly trails the warmer and more personable Brandt, and even rates below some members of his own party. His critics have pinned on him a wide assortment of unlovely epithets: "aalglatt" (slippery as an eel), "a well-rehearsed Pharisee," "spontaneous as a robot...
...concern of the artist, yet the organizational form that this social concern is taking is as unique as the appearance of 18-year-olds at national conventions. Only in the last few years have art sales and auctions for political candidates become powerful instruments for encouraging voter participation in elections and fund raising. There has been no significant study made of such political art groups as yet; nevertheless, what such fresh groupings seem to point out is new and larger trends of sociological thought, participation, and interaction...