Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Both men claim to hold the 97 votes (out of 192) needed to win. "I don't count them hard unless I've looked at them eyeball to eyeball and shaken their hands," says Michel. Says Vander Jagt: "I count a vote hard when he looks you in the eye." The battle will end next week when House Republicans meet eyeball to eyeball for a secret ballot...
...which this world has never imagined. From Tokyo to Turin, business executives who have helped fashion economies heavily dependent upon international trade gave their support to Reagan, not a few of them half jesting that they are so bound to the U.S. that they should be allowed to vote. Now they wait with hope and considerable caution for an executive reorganization in the "home office" in Washington that, with luck and a bit of wisdom, could become a potent force for more prosperity throughout the world-and for peace as well...
...conservative evangelicals undoubtedly hurt Jimmy Carter. According to an ABC News/Harris survey, Carter won the white Baptist vote in 1976, 56% to 43%, and lost it this time, 56% to 34%. The Harris analysis indicates that the shift in the evangelical vote accounted for two-thirds of Reagan's ten-point margin over Carter. Other experts do not agree; they claim that the New Right had its main effect in state and local elections where certain targeted liberal candidates were already in serious trouble...
N.C.P.A.C.'s main object was to expose the incumbent's voting record for the citizens back home. The Senators tended to vote to the left of their constituents while playing down this fact in their campaigns. Says Viguerie: "N.C.P.A.C. went up to the doorsteps and left the dead cats...
DIED. John S. Pennington, 56, who as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal revealed vote fraud in a 1962 Georgia state senate race and turned the apparent loser into a winner, giving Jimmy Carter his first political victory; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Only two months ago, Carter told Pennington, who moved to the St. Petersburg Times in 1977: "I never would have gone for office again if I had lost that...