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The surge that Jesse Jackson called forth will not go away. Nor will the fears it roused in the South and in the Northern urban centers. It will be there in 1988, under Jackson's name or another. It is his legacy to the election of 1988. How much...
Jesse Jackson was different; he changed the politics of 1984.
And then at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Jackson made his cause clear. The morning after his stunning speech of conciliation and redemption, he spoke to the Black Caucus. "Women got what they want," he said, "in Geraldine Ferraro; the South got what it wants in Bert Lance. What...
In Georgia, Elliott Levitas, 53, who had held the Atlanta area's seat through five elections, lost to Republican Patrick Lynn Swindall, 33, an Atlanta lawyer and businessman. A Rhodes scholar and a liberal on civil rights, Levitas had been a leading critic of Anne Gorsuch Burford's...
Of the surviving incumbents, the most scrutinized was Jesse Helms. No major American political figure arouses stronger feelings than Helms, 63. Millions of Americans reject his ferocious New Right ideology, while millions of others share his many resentments-of Government, of feminism, blacks and modern life itself. At home in...