Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really narrow race course, which we're not used to racing on the Charles," Yeates said. "It was a good race for us, especially since it was our first action in a four...
Democratic honchos fear that the new rules will make it even more difficult for a candidate to wrap up the nomination before convention time and give Jackson a definite leg up in the 1992 race. Last week two white party | strategists, Thomas Donilon and Robert Beckel, circulated a paper that argues for a return to the previous rules. In a thinly veiled reference to Jackson, the report says the new system "rewards those candidates who have goals other than the nomination." D.N.C. chief Ron Brown has said he does not want to "reopen that can of worms," but by supporting...
Bulletins from the battlegrounds where race and politics collide more often resemble the one from Chicago than the one coming from Virginia. As the racially divided voting in the Windy City demonstrated, American elections all too often remain a matter of black and white. Virginia, once a bastion of segregation, seems an unlikely setting for a brand of biracial coalition that could break the depressing pattern of color-bound voting. Yet if Doug Wilder wins the governorship, the old bugaboo of racial politics will have been dealt a severe blow...
...Democrats' attempts to override the 1983 primary by mounting an independent challenge to Washington, Evans ran under the banner of the Harold Washington Party. Jackson refused to endorse Daley, who had not actively supported Washington's earlier bids. Instead, Jackson backed Evans -- thereby opening himself to charges of putting race ahead of party loyalty. But turnout in black wards went down. To win, Evans needed at least 15% of the white vote; he got 7%. Daley attracted 8% of black voters, but his richly financed campaign produced a large turnout among whites. Result: Daley...
This fall's contest promises to be more difficult than in 1985, when the G.O.P. complacently assumed that race alone would defeat Wilder. This time he must inspire a larger than usual black turnout while persuading whites to put aside historic prejudices. To fend off criticism from conservatives, he has distanced himself from Jackson. Some militant black leaders in Richmond resent Wilder's retreat from his roots. But if he becomes Governor, he will have done what Jackson and other protest leaders have been unable to do: build a coalition that can put a black in a Governor's mansion...