Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city removed the 21 names when the U.S. Court of Appeals, ruling in the case of three other students, decided that Federal courts should not rule in state voter registration cases...
Despite a willingness to waffle on his more extreme views, he retains an aura of conviction and simplicity. No one really knows whether his success has welled from some deep voter malaise with the way things are -and a concomitant if unfocused demand for change, even along McGovern lines -or whether it has happened because of his superb and dedicated organization...
...been undergoing a social tempest. Cambridge politics have been modernized more slowly. The city is often compared to Berkeley. Calif..as a center of "youth culture". But while young people have had a tremendous social impact on Cambridge, so far the city has effectively barred them from local voter rolls and prevented them from having much of an impact on city politics. While radicals took over the city government of Berkeley two years ago, council elections in tradition-tied Cambridge last year produced only a shaky liberal majority in a City Council shared with ethnic and commercial interests...
...ISSUES. The survey shows that the issue that most concerns Californians is Viet Nam. Of those who voted for McGovern, 82% did so at least in part because of his antiwar stance. But the environment, unemployment, welfare and tax reform were also of prime interest to the McGovern voter. In contrast, 51% of Humphrey's supporters voted for him because they felt that he was the more experienced candidate, while another one-third were simply registering their strong opposition to McGovern. Nearly half of the non-McGovern voters thought that he was "too far out" on abortion and marijuana...
...leaflets a day, which other youths distributed from door to door. They have operated on a budget of only $172,000, but by May of 1971, they managed to get the 325,000 signatures needed to put Proposition Nine on the ballot. And when a Harris poll sampled voter opinion on the issue last February, California's political and business leaders (and union leaders as well) learned to their horror that the voters favored the measure by a margin...