Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...majority's will, and most Americans acquiesce to election results with relative equanimity. Not so William Loeb, the ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader. In the state's gubernatorial election this fall, Loeb supported conservative Democrat Roger Crowley, hoping that a large voter turnout in Manchester would carry Crowley past the Republican incumbent, Walter Peterson, into the Statehouse. Crowley lost by 4,200 votes. Last week the Union Leader began publishing the names of the 15,000 Manchester voters who failed to show up at the polls. It is they, says Loeb, who cost...
...sure you want 'em." Last year the varsity lightweight squad was seeded sixth out of 15 in the crucial Eastern sprints. But the crew skipped the races to join the protest over Cambodia and Kent State. For 18 places on the freshman squad, the turnout dropped from 70 two years ago to 20 this fall...
...stirring up the voters, Nixon seemed to forget that his is a minority party-and the high voter turnout worked against him. In several races, the Administration misgauged the independence of many voters, who picked and chose in an unusual display of ticket-splitting. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Never has the American voter so totally thumbed his nose at outside interference, money, buncombe, hate and the lofty lamentations of the pious. Particularly in the last ten days, Nixon's campaign was an appeal to narrowness and selfishness and an insult to the American intelligence. He diminished...
Landau states that, "An estimated 45 per cent of Montreal's eligible voters showed up to cast ballots-an unusually meagre turnout." According to Montreal's Le Presse (lundi, 26 octobre 1970), the turnout was actually 49.8 per cent and this turnout is higher than in any previous civic election of the past decade in which M. Drapeau has been a candidate for mayor-a total of 4 elections. The respective turnouts in 1960, 1962 and 1966 were 41.0, 42.6 and 33.0 per cent. Moreover, because the property qualification for enfranchisement was abolished by the National Assembly in December...
Organizers for the rally had hoped to have a crowd of at least five thousand. Dellinger attributed the poor turnout to a lack of publicity and he way last week's news stories concentrated on the possible Leary visit rather than the purpose of the upcoming rally...