Word: voters
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...LIMITATION. Last August a bill was passed by the Senate, 88-2, putting a lid on campaign spending of 100 for every eligible voter in the area where the candidate is running. Of this, no more than 60 per voter could be spent on TV and radio advertising. In the presidential election, such a limitation would mean that a candidate could not spend more than $8.4 million for broadcasting; Richard Nixon paid $12.6 million in 1968. Since that Senate bill came under the jurisdiction of two House committees, Administration and Commerce, each reported out its own version. They weakened some...
...bound to be even greater in 1972. The major outlay is for television: a 60-second spot, a favorite of candidates in 1968, costs almost $50,000 in prime time. But there are other expensive items that have been added to the well-stocked campaign: computer data banks with voter profiles, professional pollsters, $500-a-day political consultants...
...Stanton), and to get back at those who had been his bitterest opponents, the men who had refused to accord him "basic respect." Over the last weekend of the primary campaign, a taped message from Stokes was mechanically telephoned from Carney headquarters into the home of every black voter in the city, instructing the residents to go to the polls and vote for Carney. The message didn't even have the familiar "This is a recording" tacked on at the end, with the result that many blacks thought they were speaking directly to the Mayor. It was not too difficult...
...seem to reach these Administration people about the seriousness of the situation. I would think the '70 election would have been a lesson. Nixon can make all the trips to China and Moscow he wants to, but the greatest impact on the voter is mood. If a farmer goes to the polls with a jingle in his pocket and the weather is right and he can pay for his new equipment, he'll vote for the incumbent. If not, he'll go to vote with vengeance in his heart, and the people in power will...
...eight candidates for the three open city council berths, only two immediately assessed the new student voter potential and pitched their campaigns accordingly. George Griffiths, 42, a Lansing junior high school teacher and George Colburn, 33, an analyst for the Michigan legislature, appeared frequently on campus and plugged away for "participatory democracy at all levels." They also drew heavily on 300 mostly student volunteers to tout their message. Neither they nor any of the other candidates ran with party affiliation or identification...