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In one respect, Super Week made the choice a bit more clear: it left just one candidate still competing for votes with Hart and Mondale. Six rivals had hit the hustings against them in February; by the end of last week the sole survivor was Jesse Jackson. He needed to...
Jesse Jackson proves he can entice blacks to the polls
From the beginning of his campaign, Jesse Jackson had counted on the primaries below the Mason-Dixon line to show that he could entice historically stay-at-home blacks to the voting booth. Last week in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, Jackson did just that. "Blacks just ran to the polls...
In terms of delegates, Jackson does not figure to be much of a factor at the Democratic Convention. His influence will come from his proven ability to rally black voters. Jackson has already stated that he will support only a nominee who shares his opposition to runoff elections, dual registration...
The exit surveys do serve a useful purpose: they provide information about the demographic profiles of the candidates' supporters. Some of the findings are instructive-that Hart's voters are younger than Mondale's, for example, or that 20% of Jesse Jackson's black voters had...