Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within the central "Triad," bound by Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1. Yet voters would just as soon send a member of the G.O.P. to the statehouse or the White House. "I have voted for J.F.K. and for Barry Goldwater," says Paul Hinkle, a purchasing agent at the Drexel Heritage furniture-manufactu ring plant. "I am a registered Democrat, and I intend to vote, but this is the weakest field I have seen in 35 years...
Black church leaders and local officials who were cool to Jackson's candidacy last time are now heartily involved, no longer fearful that a black will siphon votes from a liberal Democrat. They are integrated into well- disciplined state organizations, with sophisticated canvassing and get-out- the-vote operations. Since black Democrats turn out to vote in much larger proportion than do their white counterparts during the primaries, their clout will be considerable...
...night so each side could sleep, Byrd enforced stern, old-fashioned filibuster rules reminiscent of the civil rights battles of the 1950s. He requisitioned 50 cots from the Army, set them up in the Capitol and vowed that if the Republicans yielded the floor even momentarily, the presiding Democrat would demand a vote on the bill. A cadre of Democrats, he said, would be assembled to pass...
...Asia's more established opium lords ever dreamed of. Greasing palms and, when necessary, using the gun, the drug barons have spawned corruption from Bolivia to the Bahamas, and in more than one country are threatening to supplant elected government as the reigning power. Warns John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads a Senate panel that is investigating the problem: "There is a whole new force in our hemisphere. The power of the narcodollar is buying countries and altering geopolitics...
...officials -- have come to question the Reagan Administration's commitment to fighting the drug blight. Despite Nancy Reagan's much vaunted Just Say No campaign, the Noriega indictments and the Kerry hearings suggest that the Reagan Administration has selectively ignored some narcotics dealing. Says Representative Larry Smith, a Florida Democrat who heads a congressional task force on narcotics: "You can't tell people 'Just Say No' at home, and then turn a blind eye on the diplomatic front...