Word: voting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders generally felt that the call for a vote was a mistake. "Occupation had already been decided upon." one spokesman said. "There was no need to vote again." Those voting against the occupation were largely members of M.I.T.'s Science Action Coordinating Committee (SACC), a group which supports the NAC demands but is regarded as more moderate...
...WCBS-New York projection based on half of the returns last night predicted that Lindsay would get 12 percent of the final vote. Procaccino 34 per cent, and Marchi...
...final tally of the New York Daily News straw poll- never wrong in a mayoral election-indicates that the anti-Lindsay vote will go 27 per cent for Procaccino and 23 per cent for Marchi, with Lindsay getting a 48 per cent plurality...
While Lindsay goes into today's election the front-runner, he was considered the underdog at the campaign's outset. Procaccino, who won the Democratic primary with less than a third of the vote against four liberals-Former Mayor Robert Wagner. Badillo, Norman Mailer and Congressman James Schener-saw his initial strength erode quickly over the summer and fall. Political columnists blame his apparent decline on his failure to make any reconciliatory gesture to his party's disaffected middle-class liberals, his inability to branch out beyond the law-and-order issue, and his "hot" image in the recent three...
...usual, it is New York's large Jewish vote which holds the key to the election. Lindsay carried 3 per cent of it in 1965. He will have to do at least that well today to emerge victorious tonight...