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"I've learned that as a basic axiom of politics, you always solidify your base at the beginning of the campaign and then you move out to gain supporters in sympathetic groups," said Bruce Bolling, president of the Boston City Council and former state chairperson of the Jackson for President...
"You 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...
From those Black citizens who are registered and choose to vote, the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket will receive overwhelming support on November 8, Bolling said.
"But in order for Michael Dukakis to win, he'd need the support of upwards of 90 percent of that vote with significant turnout. The reaching out to Black voters was never manifested to the extent that it was necessary," said Bolling.
Johnson said the sticker effort for Bolling--who ran such a campaign because he failed to turn in his nomination papers on time--faced several problems: different parts of the district used several different kinds of ballots with different procedures for write-in voting; some voting machines had write-in...