Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helen McCoy was also wary of the Chicago minister and civil rights leader. Helen McCoy is a strong Democrat. "I wouldn't vote for a Republican [even] if I was dying," she maintains. But if Jackson ever garners the nomination, McCoy says she'd abandon the party at the polls...
...Democrat, I'm a Democrat," Eddinger says. "I voted a split ticket once, and I haven't felt too happy about it." Looking embarrassed, Eddinger admits to having cast a ballot for Richard M. Nixon...
Lloyd Bentsen, campaigning with Dukakis in Texas last week, may have peaked as well. An oil-state millionaire remembered for his aborted $10,000 breakfast club, the Senate Finance Committee chairman sets off special-interest alarms in some quarters. His claim to being the only Democrat to have beaten George Bush in Texas is a little long in the tooth (it happened in 1970), and his campaign style on display last week was stolid and uninspiring...
...Democrat has never won the White House without carrying Texas. Dukakis went with the odds, picking a very popular senator from Texas. Jackson had an incredible campaign. He proved that a Black man can be seriously considered for President of the United States...
...after talking to some Black Texans, it becomes clear that they will vote for what they believe in. Be it Democrat, Republican or Texan...