Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Switzler was soon forced to step down, and the party quickly appointed a Waltham businessman, George Kariotis, to head the ticket. Dukakis won the general election handily by a margin of 69 to 31 percent...
...election was the political victory that rocketed Michael Dukakis to national prominence and fueled his presidential ambitions. Dukakis' margin of victory was the highest in Massachusetts in a century, was the biggest ever by a Democratic governor here, and larger than even Governor Mario Cuomo's margin of victory in New York...
...here in Massachusetts was not as solid as he expected. In a recent poll of likely Massachusetts voters done by KRC Research of Cambridge for the Boston Herald and WBZ-TV, Dukakis led Vice-President Bush by a mere 43 percent to 39 percent--well within the five point margin of error. Eighteen percent of the poll respondents were undecided...
...News-Washington Post poll, Bush had 50 percent to 47 percent for Dukakis. That survey also had a 5 point margin of error...
Referring to the city's proportional representation voting system, Cyr added that the "battle is at the end of the ballot" where candidates often gain or lose the last few seats by a comparatively small margin of votes...