Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans are sure to give it in the fall. If the Bush forces doubt that Democrats are prepared to engage them on the values front, they should play a video of the Clintons' triumphant two-block march from the basement of Macy's to the convention hall after the Ohio delegation put the nominee over the top at 10:54 p.m. Entering the Garden to a shower of confetti and 30 minutes of boisterous cheering, the couple and their young daughter looked as happy and wholesome as a family...
...votes to the equation. Better yet, for candidates who can appeal to it, the South has often voted as a bloc. A candidate who carries the region can pick and choose among the rest of the states to put together a winning combination. The South, plus New York, California, Ohio and Michigan, for example, yields an electoral-vote total of 307. Carter's election in 1976 was a textbook illustration of how the arithmetic works. The former Georgia Governor carried the entire South (except Virginia) and defeated Gerald Ford by 57 electoral votes, even though Carter won only...
...After Ohio's 144 votes put Clinton over the number needed for nomination, the 56-screen video wall broadcast Clinton's route from his viewing post at Macy's to the convention floor, where he shook hands and exchanged hugs with delegates and friends...
...organizer Pat Clancy says a Dallas-based team took over his group's bank account when they consolidated operations in Oklahoma City. When Clancy balked at being shut out, the World War II veteran was told he was a "security risk." According to Cliff Arnebeck, a Perot volunteer in Ohio, the Dallas-based advisers "squelch and humiliate" grass-roots workers. If a local organizer is at the center of a controversy over tactics or long-range strategy, the professionals "put out the fire by jettisoning those under attack...
Amid all this disappointment came yet another prospect for survival. CSX Corp., parent of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, took an interest in Otisca as a possible source of fuel for a pilot cogeneration plant it was planning at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. As the nation's largest transporter of coal, CSX had an interest in promoting its use and export. Engineer Mack Shelor, an executive with CSX's energy resources and logistics division, learned through some contacts that Otisca was the only firm capable of producing a coal-based liquid fuel that would meet the specifications...