Word: votes
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People will interpret the question as an attempt to restrict Harvard expansion, she added. "They'll get an anti-Harvard contingent to vote for it, then beat us over the head with it," she said. "We've gotten people to write to city councilors, and they don't like it much...
...prize at the end of the obstacle course was a mere 879 delegates. These plus another 838 officials and appointees will vote in next month's straw poll. Since nearly all of these delegates are almost certain to be for Carter, the President is the odds-on favorite to wind up with votes to spare in November...
Carter and his supporters were more cautious, though they began to smell success toward the end. At his press conference, the President described the upcoming vote as "significant," and a Carter backer predicted that he would win 65% of the vote. But one staffer admitted: "We'll be happy with a victory...
...this week began and the vote counting proceeded at an agonizingly slow pace, it looked as if the President would get his victory-and by more than one vote. Carter did well in the northern Panhandle, next door fo his native Georgia, Kennedy in Gold Coast counties like Broward and Palm Beach; he also made a stronger showing than expected in central Florida. The big surprise was Dade County (Miami), where Kennedy strategists had been hoping for a clean sweep but Carter seemed to be holding...
...surface, Ohira's performance at the polls might have seemed respectable enough: his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) increased its popular vote from 42% to 44.6%. The party maintained its plurality in the 511-member lower house of the Diet by winning 248 seats, only one less than it had in the previous parliament; the L.D.P. stays in power because it has the assured support of ten independents, which will give it a voting majority of two. Moreover, Japan's second biggest party and the L.D.P. 's main opposition, the Socialists, captured only 107 seats, a loss...