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Weld has spent much of his term riding the coattails of former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's tax increases, supporting Massachusetts's social welfare programs and cutting taxes at the same time by depending on Dukakis's tax revenue...
Former presidential candidate and permanent gadfly H. Ross Perot has endorsed Texas democratic Gov. Ann Richards in herfight against George W. Bush. Perot called the Democrat "one of the greatest governors in the history of Texas" and then slugged the son of the ex-President -- a Dallas oilman and managing general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. "Running Texas as governor is big business. It is not an athletic event," he said. Richards was all smiles. "I'm really pleased to be endorsed by someone who is the personification of change in government," she said.The endorsement could have...
...poll has Florida Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles even or slightly ahead ofGOP challenger Jeb Bush, the former president's son who's been ahead for weeks. A Mason-Dixon/PMR poll of 809 registered voters last week has Chiles -- a former senator who's never lost an election -- at 48 percent to Bush's 45 percent (with a 3.5 percent error margin). Two weeks ago, Bush was five points ahead. BTW: The two go head-to-head tonight in their third debate, to be televised live on C-SPAN...
...gubernatorial race is even more lopsided, with Republican Gov. William F. Weld '66 leading state Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 by a 65 percent to 21 percent margin. Fourteen percent of those polled remain undecided...
...York's Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo has overtaken his GOP challenger George Pataki and raced ahead with a double digit lead, two polls show. In mid-October, Cuomo was trailing Pataki by nearly ten points andAlbany was gearing up for Republican purge. But today a New York Post-Fox 5 TV poll had Cuomo up by 15 points and a New York Times-WCBS TV poll had Cuomo up by 10 points.Post to 1994 Elections...