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Mario Cuomo comes from behind Ed Koch/Lew Lehrman (Who outspent him) to win mandate against death penalty in New York State. Next President of United States...
Admitting that "I wasn't really qualified anyway," New York Senator Allophones D'Amato resigns his seat. In a special election for the vacant spot, former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali defeats Republican drugstore heir Lewis Lehrman handily. Ali runs on the slogan: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee/ Lehrman got whapped once before, now I'll put him down in three...
...that the spending may be reaching a natural limit, at which point it becomes useless or even backfires on the candidates. Unhappily, the evidence does not quite bear out their theory. It is true that several of the very biggest spenders lost. Among them: Republicans William Clements and Lewis Lehrman, who shelled out around $12.5 million each on the Texas and New York gubernatorial races; Democrat Mark Dayton, a department-store heir who laid out $6.9 million in an attempt to become a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and Democrat Adam Levin, 33, a lawyer who poured as much...
Incumbent Clements actually had trouble spending all his money effectively at the end of his campaign. He could buy no more than $280,000 a week of TV time because that is all Texas stations were willing to sell. Lehrman's spending in New York became an issue in itself, adding bite to the slogan of his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo: "Experience money...
...York tends to vote fairly liberal. All the money in the Lehrman family coffers can't change that...