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...Hampshire, 1,126 candidates have filed for 400 seats at the next state constitutional convention; ten years ago, there were so few candidates that 82 people won election with write-in candidacies. At last count 14 candidates were running for Congress from Ohio's 23rd district, near Cleveland. In Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, town meetings that were once sparsely attended are now overflowing with people. "The cliche is that good government begins at home," says Tom Donohue, chairman of the Winnetka nonpartisan caucus committee. "I think people are beginning to realize that that is true...
...Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover...
...mostly from Newton liberals, a brilliant, computerized campaign organization, thousands of young volunteers, and rain on Primary day Drinan produced one of the most starting upsets in Massachusetts political history, defeating Philbin in a close race. He then went on to defeat Republican moderate John McGlennon, and a Philbin write-in campaign, in a three-way race for the Congressional seat...
...upcoming months, the Massachusetts LP intends to promote the Hospers write-in campaign, host his vice presidential candidate. Oregon TV journalist Tonie Nathan, form a group of law students to prepare position papers, paste up posters, and work for Avi Nelson...
...primary states left in which he had arranged extensive campaigns even before the shooting-although last week from his hospital room he ordered his men to go ahead with more rallies and TV ads in Rhode Island, Oregon and New Mexico. In California, local groups have organized a write-in campaign. Where public appearances are called for, Wallace's men are setting up a kind of speaker's bureau of stand-ins. Among the volunteers: former California Superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty, now a dean at Alabama's Troy State University, and Georgia's Lieut...