Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So far, Dinkins has not done much -- beyond showing up -- to respond to that hope. After trouncing Koch, he seemed prepared to coast into city hall on the euphoria of his primary win. He glad-handed his way through the general election, underestimating the potent challenge Giuliani was mounting under...
Fourteen years later, election night 1989, Wilder himself provided Virginia voters -- and, by implication, the nation as a whole -- with the most ambitious referendum on black political progress since Jesse Jackson first dabbled in presidential primaries. With Wilder, the grandson of slaves, battling to become the nation's first elected...
HOW did the Democrats do it? They should first of all thank their opponents, whose wooden personalities proved to be serious liabilities. When The New York Times ran a pre-election biography on New York Republican mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani, they only distanced him further from most voters.
Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the...
POLITICAL buffs will recall how President Bush called on New York voters during the past mayoral campaign to establish a "Republican beachhead" in New York. Republicans failed in this attempt and in several other election contests. What had begun as George Bush's Republican war ended last week as Ron...