Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party chief Karel Urbanek, addressing the meeting, said the Central Committee will make further personnel changes following a major shakeup in the ruling party last Friday. He also proposed an extraordinary party congress on January 26 which would have the power to elect an entirely new Central Committee...
...trailblazer named Douglas Wilder. Back in 1975, when Wilder was the only black in the state senate (and the first since 1890), he gave voice to his overarching aspirations, a notion of empowerment far beyond what seemed plausible amid the genteel conservatism of the Old Dominion. "If people will elect you Lieutenant Governor," Wilder predicted with startling prescience, "they'll elect you Governor. I would think it would be an interesting test somewhere along the line for a black to run for one of those positions so as to put prejudice right on the line...
Wilder's strategy appeared to be working so well that few expected election night to be a Maalox Moment. All the published pre-election surveys had shown Wilder leading his Republican rival J. Marshall Coleman by margins of 4% to 15%. Even an initial television exit poll had anointed Wilder with a 10 percentage-point triumph. But by the time Wilder felt comfortable enough to declare victory, his razor-thin lead had stabilized about where it would end up: just 6,582 votes out of a record 1.78 million ballots cast. That was enough, however, for Virginia's Governor-elect...
...Their influence on the election is very positive," said Duehay. "I think they will help elect me and Ken Reeves and participate in changing the power structure in this city...
With what some are calling the city's highest-ever turnout of Black voters, Mayor-elect David N. Dinkins accepted his win to the cheers of a uniquely diverse audience--racially and ethnically. Tailoring a speech to their likes proved difficult, however, as Dinkins struggled between the rhetoric of his grassroots following and the party establishment...