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...point deficit in the polls over the last month. But don't accuse Perot of party bias. He's expected Saturday to endorse Independent New York gubernatorial candidate B. Thomas Golisano -- further damaging the lagging candidacy of theGOP's George Pataki. A poll published today has Democrat Gov. Mario Cuomo ahead of GOP candidate George Pataki by 7 points -- about the amount of Golisano's total support. Two weeks back, Cuomo was 15 points behind Pataki. One of the factors in the turnaround is Golisano, who is siphoning away Pataki's conservative base. "A vote for Golisano is a vote...
...debate was sponsored by the college's Political Science Organization. The group also tried to hold a gubernatorial forum, but only Democratic nominee Mark Roosevelt '78, and not Gov. William F. Weld '66, was represented...
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...