Word: gantt
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...contest between Republican Jesse Helms and his black Democratic challenger Harvey Gantt attracted more national attention than any other Senate election because it posed a primal question: Was Helms' brand of racial politics finally obsolete? In electing Helms to a fourth term last week, North Carolina gave a clear answer: not yet, not even in a state regarded as one of the most progressive in the South...
...liberals who had hoped to retire the Senate's most outspoken reactionary, the result was a harsh disappointment. Gantt in early fall appeared to capture the initiative. A former mayor of Charlotte and a successful architect, Gantt, 47, presented what he called a "noble agenda." It amounted to a genteel strain of liberalism emphasizing improved education, health care and environmental measures. He rarely used the terms black or African American and refused to call Helms racist. Instead, he labeled Helms "divisive," a euphemism Gantt hoped would deflect polarization along racial lines...
...congressional champion of archconservatism, Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), beat a Black liberal, Harvey Gantt, with a last-minute racist appeal. California voters resisted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein's plea to give a woman a chance, giving the Republicans control of the most politically important state in the nation. And two of the front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, N.J. Senator Bill Bradley and N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo, squeaked to unimpressive victories against little-known opponents...
...Lewis, a political consultant and former IOP fellow, said that people in Washington have been asking how many Senate races they would be willing to concede in order to make sure fomer Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Harvey Gantt defeated incumbent Sen. Jesse Helms...
Anticipation, excitement and frustration became shared emotions as the majority of the crowd mourned Helm's growing lead over Gantt, and cheered Silber's waning lead...