Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-time voter and a McGovern volunteer, I am really becoming fed up with political analysts telling the world that I am going to become disillusioned with Senator McGovern for modifying his position on some issues between now and November...
Jordan has his own talents. He grew up in Atlanta in the first public-housing project for blacks, earned a law degree, ran the Southern Regional Council's Voter-Education Project and was the highly successful head of the United Negro College Fund. While Jordan was with the fund, Young asked him to become his assistant. Vernon replied that he would not become anyone's deputy. Said Young: "The only other job for you here is mine, and it's not vacant...
...possibly win in November, his men have insisted all along that besides an anti-Nixon restiveness in the land, the arithmetic of the new youth vote would be sufficient to carry him into the White House. Even before the convention, McGovern's strategists were planning a vast voter-registration drive aimed at signing up 18 million of the 25 million first-time voters...
...Japan's man in the street, Kakuei Tanaka offers an appealing change in style. He is, in fact, a new kind of Japanese politician: a straight-talking, Oriental populist. Almost everything about the man has voter appeal, from his hoarse baritone to his bumper-sticker name (which literally means "Sharp Prosperity Amid Paddies"). Tanaka was born in a rice-belt village, in Niigata prefecture, the son of a horse trader who had a financially fatal weakness for gambling. At 16, young Tanaka quit school and lit out for Tokyo, where for three years he ran errands for a contractor...
...fill the two vacancies left by Schiller's departure, Brandt switched Helmut Schmidt from the Defense Ministry to take over the Economics and Finance portfolios. Schmidt, whose youthful good looks help him to outdraw even Brandt in voter-preference polls, is a leading member of the party's right wing. With elections ahead, Brandt wanted to be certain that West German voters realized that Schiller's abrupt exodus did not mean a leftward swing by the Social Democrats away from the recent middle-of-the-road policies that helped bring them to power...