Word: bentsens
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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...
...voting difference between Bentsen and Quayle strikes at the fundamental differences between the candidates," said Gene Sperling, domestic policy advisor for the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign. A spokesperson for the Bush-Quayle campaign said, "Senator Quayle has nothing to say about this issue...
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...
From those Black citizens who are registered and choose to vote, the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket will receive overwhelming support on November 8, Bolling said...