Word: voting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consensus is vital because if the department's vote is close. Stauder will have difficulty jumping his second hurdle, the Corporation...
...Corporation normally rubber stamps the recommendations of any department in hiring policy. But the Stauder case has been exceptional, and the Corporationcould easily interpret any large minority vote against Stauder as a mandate for the Corporation to overturn the department's decision...
...when councilman Gerry O'Leary successfully used a radio slogan advising, "Vote O'Leary, he's been there before," it was one of the most valid appeals to Bostonian voter logic that could have been made...
Necessarily, then, any successful candidate is going to have to sway votes in Roslindale, Hyde Park, Allston, Jamacia Plain and Charlestown- sections where one's neighborhood would not get him elected, but where his conservatism could. Since every candidate knows it, they all take the same stands. Naturally, the traditional pattern held up once again. Law-and-order, improved neighborhoods (without urban renewal), better schools, and closer-watched city finances are always successful platforms in Boston, but any serious candidate knows it, so there is little hope of selecting councillors by the issues. And drawing the vote from...
...election then is incumbency and favorable ballot position. Close examination of the high position-large vote ration shows that Bostonians often select the first nine candidates on the ballot- or the first eight plus Hicks. Bulleting, the casting of a vote for only one candidate, also finds widespread...