Word: gores
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...Albert J. Gore Jr. '69 of Tennessee, who has staked hopes of reviving his trailing campaign with a good showing in Wisconsin on Tuesday, picked up the endorsement this weekend of The Milwaukee Journal...
...newspaper cited Gore's "impressive record" in arms control, military reform and environmental protection, and called him "one of Congress' best informed members on the future of science and technology...
...landslide margins in Detroit but also attracted a startling measure of white support, carrying cities like Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and Saginaw. Nearly complete returns gave Jackson an awesome 54% of the total caucus vote, compared with Dukakis' 29%, while Richard Gephardt (13%), Paul Simon (2%) and Albert Gore (2%) trailed badly. Although the precise delegate breakdown remained murky at week's end, Jackson may have won half the 138 convention seats at stake. These figures were a further blow to Dukakis, whose run-everywhere strategy was in jeopardy after successive setbacks in Illinois and Michigan...
...fragmentation. Jesse Jackson, who came in second, failed to win more than 8% of the white vote. By coming in third, Dukakis showed that his message of better-me-than-a-brokered-conventi on did not turn out to be the inspirational theme he has been searching for. Gore, with a paltry 5%, demonstrated that his ability to win votes up North is no better now than it was before his Super Tuesday Border State victories...
...Gore is making an effort in Michigan, picking up the endorsements of the party's top legislative leaders. But he suffers from playing out his "I'm one of you" message in the South, and he has yet to find another message. He flirted in Illinois with becoming the anti-Establishment candidate, a hard metamorphosis for a Senator's son who attended St. Albans and Harvard. But he seems most at home talking defense or microchips. The only passion he could muster in Illinois -- a speech about the Government's important role in the coming information revolution, delivered in front...