Word: voters
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Helped by the voter backlash against professional politicians, newcomers to politics won gubernatorial elections in several states last year. Among them were two Democrats: Massachusetts' Ed King, a former professional football lineman and director of the state port authority, and Alabama's Fob James, a millionaire manufacturer of sporting goods. Both charged into office in January promising business-like administrations and a fresh approach to solving problems. Since they have taken office, however, the two have met with astonishingly different results: King is foundering badly, while James is off to a successful start...
...anybody listening? Well, no. In the dingy second floor office from which he directs the state Republican Party and the Goodyear tire franchise in Manchester, G.O.P. Chairman Gerald Carmen concedes that "the ordinary, rank and file voter isn't all that stirred up. You think he's trying to decide between Reagan and Crane? Nah. He's wondering whether his car will start in this cold weather. He's hoping the temperature won't drop to 20 below tonight...
Muzorewa and his two black associates, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Tribal Chief Jeremiah Chirau, need a large voter turnout in order to lend credibility to the election. Along with their white colleague, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, architect of the country's "internal settlement," they are anxious to counter the intense resistance to the poll being mounted by more than 10,500 guerrillas of the Patriotic Front...
...dyed in the red of Iran's small and still outlawed Tudeh Communist Party. Though Khomeini enjoys overwhelming support among the 30 million Shi'ites who make up about 90% of Iran's population, he is taking no chances on the outcome of the referendum. Each voter will be required to put his name and address on his ballot. Those who dare to vote red could well be providing the Ayatullah with a readymade enemies list...
...rejects the proposed reform that would ensure the democratic election of all ACSR members stating that elections would most likely "suffer" from a lack of information, low voter participation, "and other factors tending to produce a committee that was neither representative nor best equipped to carry out its tasks...