Word: pattonism
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...Barbara Patton, a fellow this fall at the Institute of Politics, says these suburban voters picked her over the Republican opponent because she ran an "old-fashioned, flesh-on-flesh campaign...
...18th district voters stunned political observers even more because Patton, who is Black, is the first minority elected to the assembly from a suburban district...
...would tell them, 'I might be Black and I might be a woman but I want the same things you want,"' and then talk about issues which affect everyone, Patton says, outlining her political method. "I am a Black woman but also a politician," Patton says. She did not concentrate on issues specific to Blacks or women in her campaigns...
...chief planks of Patton's campaign plattorm were lowering taxes, improving the schools by increasing state education aid, and fighting crime. Apparently these issues are attracting support because substantially more voters supported her last year than...
...Patton was not always a politician. For many years she was a housewife. But in 1974 she decided to go back to school to earn a college degree, and eventually a law degree...