Word: votes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida, 70 pro-Kennedy Democrats, including some key early supporters of Carter in 1975, gathered to begin fund raising and to make plans to win a straw vote of the state party convention in November. At the state convention in 1975, Carter began his successful campaign to win the Florida primary and thus end George Wallace's presidential candidacy. Said Organizer Mike Abrams: "The country is starving for leadership...
...reason for the Bees' opposition stemmed from the state practice of allowing Texans of one party to cross over to vote in the other's primary. But voters cannot split their ballot: they have to go all Republican or all Democrat. The Bees wanted one primary so that conservative Democrats who chose to vote for Republican Connally would not be able to vote for opponents of liberal Democrats in the state races. On the other hand, Hobby wanted two primaries so that the conservative Democrats would be free to vote for Connally in one, and for their favorites...
...province-by-province tallies. The Liberals held their own in the impoverished prov inces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. In Quebec, Trudeau easily recaptured his home riding (district) in Montreal, and the Liberals won a smashing victory. A stunning 61.9% of the popular vote and 67 of the province's 75 parliamentary seats fell into Liberal hands...
Thanks largely to their huge majority in Quebec, the Liberals outpolled the Tories 39.9% to 36.1% in the popular vote -but the parliamentary totals were the ones that counted. Early Wednesday morning, Trudeau addressed 1,000 dejected supporters in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier hotel. "I think I will be a pretty good leader of the opposition..." he began. Interrupted by applause, he never finished the sentence...
Accurately enough, Tory Leader Joe Clark interpreted the big vote for the Liberals as a rebuff to the separatists. Said he: "Quebeckers, even if they did not vote for us, voted massively for federalism...