Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preacher-politician the credibility he had long craved. Suddenly party leaders took seriously the inexorable delegate arithmetic that showed Jackson running neck and neck with Dukakis for the lead. At week's end the fast- shifting delegate tote board gave Dukakis 653 to Jackson's 646, with Albert Gore stalled in third place with...
...Albert Gore announced on the morning after the March 8 Super Tuesday primaries that he planned to take the rest of the month off, there would have been hoots of derision. In hindsight, three weeks at the beach would have been almost as effective, and far less costly, than the campaign Gore waged. After squandering an estimated $320,000 on TV ads in Illinois and Connecticut, Gore remained the king of the single digits by failing to score over 10% in two successive primaries...
...While Gore predicted "a hard-fought battle allthe way to the convention," Sen. Paul Simon(D.-Ill.), a poor fourth, seemed likely to suspendactive campaigning later in the week...
Wisconsin had 81 Democratic delegates at stake,with Dukakis receiving 43, Jackson 26 and Gore 12.Going into the evening, Dukakis led Jackson, 692to 683, and Gore had 382 delegates. Simon had 171and 517 were uncommitted. The Democratic nomineemust receive...
Returns from 73 percent of Colorado's 2784precincts showed Dukakis with 3974 delegates, or45.4 percent, to Jackson's 3453 delegates or 39.5percent. Uncommitted delegates totaled 1069, or12.2 percent, and Gore received 236 delegates, or2.7 percent...