Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week Graham will officially launch a "sticker campaign" against Alvin Thompson, the victor in last week's primary. This will require voters to affix stickers bearing Graham's name and address to their ballots, a tactic that requires much greater effort on the part of her campaign organization than a traditional contest would have...
...campaign will be a longshot effort by a candidate who was too lazy to seek the help of her constituency. Now, Graham's campaign has begun to assemble a paid staff and hopes to raise $1000 per day to help win back her disaffected constituency...
...Graham's supporters like to think of her as a champion of the underdog, and consider her a leader in the Legislature on crucial issues. They make an effective case that the politically unknown Thompson--a truant officer with the Cambridge School Department--would be far less influential as a legislator because of his pro-landlord position on rent control. As one Graham campaign aide put it, "losing Saundra Graham would be a tragedy for Cambridge...
Despite her record, Graham will have a difficult time trying to convince voters that she is still the effective, responsible, caring elected official her reputation makes her out to be. Her primary non-campaign was a display of arrogance, and it has not gone unpunished...
...there is a significant difference. Dukakis had four years to learn his lessons. Graham needs to cram for a final less than seven weeks away...