Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government harasses and sometimes detains lower-level party workers. The most prominent party, the National League for Democracy, which claims a membership of 450,000, is a coalition of convenience for three of the best-known opposition figures: former Generals Aung Gyi and Tin Oo, and the highly popular Aung San Suu Kyi, the British-educated daughter of independence hero Aung...
...more poverty, more instability, more violence. The U.S. might spearhead an international consortium of aid that would be applied to social reform and economic growth. The key here is to address the debilitating poverty that is endemic to the region. Only then is there hope of starving popular support for Central America's Communist insurgencies...
Bush's victory was national in scope: he won 54% of the popular vote, which translated into a likely 426 electoral votes of a possible 538. He ran strongest in the South and the Rocky Mountain states, two regions that have become a rock-solid electoral base for Republicans. In addition, he held on to some of Reagan's key voting blocs, running even with Dukakis among the middle class, winning the majority of independents and most baby boomers. But Bush was hurt by the gender gap. Dukakis won 52% of the votes cast by women, in contrast...
...popular was Democrat Charles Robb as Virginia's Governor from 1982 to 1986 that when he fixed his sights on Republican Senator Paul Trible's seat, Trible prudently decided to retire. Republican prospects seemed so slim that the party tapped political novice Maurice Dawkins, an energetic black Baptist minister. About all that Dawkins' supporters could find to attack Robb with were unsubstantiated charges that as Governor he had attended beach parties at which cocaine had been used, and allegations that Robb had had an affair with a former Miss Virginia. Robb denied the charges. The race degenerated into a strange...
...Bush by a margin of 10 points, compared with 28 points for Reagan in 1984. Women went for Dukakis by 4 points, while four years ago they supported Reagan by 10 points. The fact that women outnumber men in the electorate helped keep Bush's overall majority of the popular vote to less than half of Reagan's 18- point margin...