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Officer Reuben Dottin, one of the 15 who failed, recalled a precinct-house version of The Paper Chase. He said he studied for an entire year--"I gave up my social life and everything"--before failing...
Robertson completed his political hat trick Tuesday night in Lansing, Mich. The state's nominating process began more than a year ago with the election of , some 9,000 precinct-level delegates. Though Bush and Kemp both invested much time and money, Robertson's supporters pulled off a surprise: in succeeding county-level conventions, they joined forces with some Kemp supporters to win control of the party machinery. The issue last week before the state's party central committee was whether to enlarge the pool of precinct delegates by nearly 1,200 party regulars, most of them Bush supporters...
These days there are no fund-raising letters with his name, like those that appeared a year ago following his victory in the Michigan precinct-level delegate elections, declaring "The Christians have won!" He emphasizes tolerance, denying vehemently a quote attributed to him that only born-again Christians and Jews should hold Government jobs. But he volunteers in an interview that nonbelievers would have no place in a Robertson Administration because "I don't think that atheists have their act together...
Only about 1000 Harvard students are registered to vote in Cambridge, but Sullivan plans to campaign vigorously at the University. He says the precinct that includes Harvard Yard has always been among the most fruitful...
After attending a Republican precinct meeting by accident, Duggin said she joined that party and began working her way up in the Georgian Republican machine, culminating in the 1980 Presidential election...