Word: conteste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Find a silver-bullet issue even more powerful than race. The Wilder camp braced for a close contest, even after Coleman, perhaps their weakest Republican challenger, won a bruising three-way G.O.P. primary. Coleman immediately launched a fusillade of negative spots, dredging up the personal charges against Wilder from the 1985 campaign. Without a cutting issue to transform the debate, the internal calculus in the Wilder campaign was that its candidate was mired at around 45% support, partly because of Democratic defections stemming from a rancorous coal miners' strike in southwestern Virginia and a Labor Day riot among black college...
...news to me," said Gicewicz, who expressed interest in the contest...
...Arkansas scored two quick goals before intermission and collected three other goals in the third period to take a 7-3 lead. By then, it was no contest...
...James Florio won the New Jersey governorship handily on his third try in another featured contest in a set of elections dominated by controversy over race and abortion...
...Virginia contest focused on abortion asmuch as race, with Wilder emphasizing hispro-choice views in an attempt to downplay hisrace with the voters of the Southern state. Theissue seemed to spill over to the lieutenantgovernor's race, as well, as pro-choice DemocratDon Beyer defied the pre-election polls to score avictory...