Word: write-in
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...challenged the President. Said one high-ranking aide: "If he runs, Jimmy will beat him, and I think Kennedy knows that." Others disagree. Said one party operative worried about potential Kennedy strength in New Hampshire: "I think he'll beat Carter 2 to 1, even with a write-in campaign." Kennedy's supporters have begun organizing just such a campaign in the nation's first primary state, despite efforts by the Massachusetts Senator to stop them. Another pro-Kennedy effort has sprung up recently in Iowa without the Senator's approval...
...strongly objected to conducting the interviews, and a considerable national write-in campaign resulted. Our point was made and the INS said they would conduct the interviews," Chamberlain said...
That went for the Israeli lobby in the U.S. as well. Begin telephoned Jewish leaders to give his account of the talks' collapse. Israel's Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir, who was on a U.S. tour, encouraged pro-Israel groups to launch a write-in and telegram campaign aimed at the White House and Congress. A group of 33 Jewish intellectuals, including Writers Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, who have criticized the Begin government's inflexibility in the past, sent Carter a letter saying that Washington's support of Cairo's position was "unacceptable...
...primary by the "no" votes. In neighboring Idaho, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Allan Larsen suffered a similar slight. To underscore Incumbent John Evans' refusal to debate, Larsen paid for a televised confrontation with an empty chair. That helped one voter make up his mind: he cast a write-in vote for the empty chair...
...state Senate, Sen. George Rogers (D-New Bedford), defeated in the primary by Robert Hunt, failed in his write-in attempt to regain his seat...