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...somewhat different story. Helms' bitter, racially charged 1990 contest against former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt established Gantt as a legitimate contender. Since then, a coalition of politicians and civic leaders has registered tens of thousands of new voters -- many of them black. "It there is a pivot, it will be the dramatic increase in black voter registration since the last election. Black registration is up 31 to 34 percent in some urban North Carolina counties," Towle says. Polls give Helms an eight to nine point lead, but with low turnout expected nationwide, an energized black vote could make the difference...
...suffer the sight of a better, younger fielder taking his place. Watching the All-Star game last month, one might have agreed when Ozzie let a high chopper play him that he would have charged without blinking a few years ago. But then he made a classic double-play pivot in the sixth and beamed like...
...next week in the Midwest. The delegates were tantalizing enough (392 so far), but what really had Dole operatives drooling was the sweet reward of three straight weeks of nonstop, positive and, above all, free media exposure during March. So it was time, Dole's aides explained, to "pivot" from Buchanan and Forbes to Clinton and Gore. That meant solving some lingering problems, like the fact that Dole approaches the start of the Big Race with little money and less message and at least a 9-point ditch in the polls...
...team set to work attacking the former Tennessee Governor's record on crime and taxes. But it somehow got its feet stuck in the mud; rather than pivot quickly, the Dole camp worried about the backlash over negative ads and couldn't put its anti-Lamar ad on the air until Thursday night--too late for anyone to see it before the all-important debate, but soon enough for Alexander to attack him for running it. "Lamar has got the three-day luxury of movement," complained a Dole official. "Part of this drill is moving quickly, and we didn...
Rent control was repealed by a statewide referendum which fully took effect January 1. Municipal elections will no longer pivot around the issue...