Word: gores
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With returns in from 57 percent of Wisconsin's precincts, the Massachusetts governor had won 311,160 votes or 47 percent, Jackson had 197,795 votes or 30 percent, Gore 109,384 or 17 percent and Simon 31,389 or 5 percent...
Despite the Dukakis victory, a CBS pollindicated that the governor's support was softerthan Jackson's or Gore's. It found that thegovernor's support was evenly split between firmbackers and those who liked him "withreservations," while Jackson's strong supportersby far outnumbered his weak ones...
...Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.) ran adistant third in Wisconsin. But even so, hepronounced himself "extremely pleased...
...Michael S. Dukakis and the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson are running a tight race in Wisconsin, while neither Sen. Paul Simon (D.-Ill.) or Sen. Albert A. Gore, Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.) are serious threats in today's crucial primary contest, poltical analysts and campaign workers said yesterday...
...party leaders have treated him with condescension and kid gloves. The media have asked endlessly "What does Jesse want?" And the other Democratic candidates with the exception of Al Gore even to refuse to attack his viewpoints. All this wary treatment of the Jackson candidacy reflects a subtle form of racism saying that he must be handled with care, that he cannot win the nomination no matter how high his vote totals, and that his positions therefore are not worthy of being debated...