Word: candidatees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN), a foe of abortion, said he had no quarrel with a medical procedure he described as aimed at preventing conception after rape. Asked pointedly whether he would expect a rape victim to bear a child that resulted from such an attack...
John Howard in Owensboro, Ky., set up a sort of drivethrough poll at his Crickets Classy Car Wash, and said the results were about even. Customers could drive into a bay named for the presidential candidate of their choosing. "It's very scientific," he said. "The margin of error is...
The half million doctors in this country are normally a Republican bloc of voters. But the word in the medical community is that they wouldn't have automatically voted Republican this year if Dukakis weren't the Democratic candidate.
Backers of Dukakis, who has been trailing in national polls, said last minute campaigning could sway voters who are not firmly set on either candidate. "Unstable polls show that voter support is still changing," said Rottenberg.
DURING the 1986 campaign for the Massachusetts eighth congressional seat, then-candidate Joseph Kennedy II jogged through stalled traffic in Allston, shaking hands with motorists in a final effort to sway any remaining undecided voters. Shortly afterward, my friend Paul, who had spent the summer working construction in Cambridge, told...