Word: votes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Running hard to pile up a big vote, Thompson stumbled badly on just one issue. He was so eager to capitalize on the tax revolt that he sponsored a non-binding "Thompson proposition," asking voters whether they wanted to put a limit on both spending and taxes in the state. Underestimating the difficulty of rounding up the necessary 589,000 petition signatures in a hurry, Thompson put the pressure on political aides to deliver?and they wound up compiling names of some voters who had never seen a petition. Bakalis responded by crying fraud, but to no avail...
...harsh campaign against him by Democrat William Fitzgerald, who even blamed Milliken for a public scare over Michigan farmers' use of the controversial pesticide PBB. Replied Milliken during the campaign: "It's a terrible thing to pander to people's fears." He finally won with 57% of the vote-his largest win in three elections...
...lawyer who spent $750,000 of his and his wife's funds on his campaign. Running behind in the polls, the frightened Percy made a novel last-minute plea with TV ads saying that he had gotten the message all right. But he added: "If you don't vote for me, I won't be around to act on it." Enough voters rallied behind Percy to give him a 245,000-vote edge, but the margin did little to enhance his standing among colleagues in the Senate or his presidential ambitions...
...indeed. D.F.L. voters abandoned their party in large numbers, and Short was trounced in the Senate vote by Republican David Durenberger, 44, a Minneapolis lawyer. Durenberger's margin was some 400,000 votes. Anderson was defeated by Rudy Boschwitz, 48, a lanky Jewish émigré from Nazi Germany and millionaire founder of a Midwestern chain of stores selling home-construction and remodeling materials...
Even though Carey was perceived by many voters as remote and cranky, he piled up a quarter-million vote plurality over Duryea. After the results were in, Carey vowed to do something about his personality problem: "I announce that I will not be aloof, alone, remote, inaccessible and grouchy, or any of those things. Tonight I shall embark on a new campaign." He quickly left for a vacation in the Bahamas with Anne Ford Uzielli, the 35-year-old daughter of Henry Ford II, amid speculation the two would marry...