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Monday, 28--U.S. Judge Robert Bork announces today that he will team up with international songstress Charo in a charity benefit on behalf of the homeless. In an unrelated disclosure, Bork confirmed that he seldom wears any clothing beneath his robes...
...vote. The result has been that Black Southerners are now the fastest growing voter population in the nation and are finally able to exercise some influence in the democratic process--which has been most notably demonstrated by the election of liberal Southern congressmen who shot down Judge Robert Bork's nomination and by Jesse Jackson's successful organizing efforts...
...combine a minority of the majority vote with a majority of the minority vote" -- as happened in the 1986 election of Southern Democratic Senators, following on Jackson's campaign and registration efforts of 1984. Those elections, giving the Democrats control of the Senate, made possible the rejection of Robert Bork. "We did it under the ((Judiciary Committee)) chairmanship of Senator Biden," Jackson says. "We couldn't have done it under the chairmanship of Senator Thurmond...
...young black voters reversed a historic pattern and turned out in greater numbers than young whites. When Jackson went to visit Alabama's Senator Howell Heflin on the Bork nomination, Heflin said he did not want to do anything to discourage the "new voters," and thus opposed Bork. Jackson, solemn in the meeting, chuckles afterward at the circumlocution: "The 'new votuhs'! Don't you just love it?" But it was more than black voters who stood in Bork's way. The combination that defeated him -- minorities, women's groups, civil liberties activists -- looked like the rainbow coalition...
...what happens in elections at the county level, all over the nation. The impact of this election is going to be felt in the elections of 1990, when the census is taken, and in 1991, when reapportionment takes place." He wants to build from the consensus established to defeat Bork: "There were fears about letting new people into the process, whether we could handle all these women, or 18-year-olds, or blacks, or homosexuals. But they have all proved to be just as American as earlier voters. We have to redefine 'we.' " Inclusively...