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Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said that Quayle scored 15 percent and Bentsen received a 69 on a 100-point scale, with 100 being the best civil rights voting record...
Senator and vice-presidential candidate Dan Quayle has an "abysmal" civil rights voting record, while his opponent Sen. Lloyd Bentsen has a vastly better one, according to a Kennedy School fellow who released a study yesterday on Congressional voting records...
...Some of the party's best-known leaders are up for re-election, including Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (W.Va.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (Ma.) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (N.Y.). Other Democratic safe bets include Spark M. Matsunaga (Ha.), George Mitchell (Me.), Jim Sasser (Tenn.) and, of course, Lloyd Bentsen...
...have to reach out to the people based on ideas, based on the direction that you want to move towards. If people saw an alternative to Bush, they'd vote for it. The Dukakis-Bentsen campaign stayed in a grey area far too long. It didn't energize its natural constituency--Blacks, labor, the disadvantaged," Bolling said...
From those Black citizens who are registered and choose to vote, the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket will receive overwhelming support on November 8, Bolling said...