Word: robbe
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...that some were pointing to him as the villain in a Dukakis debacle, he struck back. Jackson believes he is the victim of a double standard. Why, he asks, should he be blamed for not delivering the Democratic left, when no one is pointing fingers at Sam Nunn, Charles Robb and others for not garnering the center? The real purpose of the criticism, Jackson allies suggest, is to undercut Jesse's status as the front runner for 1992. "Some of this is prelude to the battle for control of the party," says a Jackson adviser...
...races for the six open seats, left by three retiring senators from each party, U.S. Rep. James Jeffords (R-Vt.) is expected to move to the upper house, while Democrat Charles S. Robb should win the Virginia seat, formerly held by a Republican. The four other open races--in Florida, Wisconsin, Washington and Mississippi--feature the closest battles...
VIRGINIA Former Governor Charles Robb is a lock...
When Virginia Republicans convened in Roanoke last week and picked black Businessman Maurice Dawkins to run for the U.S. Senate, they handed him the dubious opportunity of serving as a sacrificial lamb in a contest against the state's most popular and best-financed Democrat: ex-Governor Charles S. Robb. A Chicago native and onetime preacher with a rousing hellfire brand of oratory, Dawkins, 67, captured the nomination by getting more votes than two white candidates combined. Declaring that he would run a "conservative" but not a "black" campaign, Dawkins, a former Democrat who left the party in 1972, declined...
What went wrong? In fact, Gore's run for the Oval Office was always a long shot. A freshman Senator who entered the race only after more notable Southern moderates such as Sam Nunn and Charles Robb had shied at the gate, Gore did well to survive until the finals. "If I had disappeared from the earth for six months and came back at the end of April to find that Al Gore was one of three candidates left, my reaction would have been near disbelief," says his friend Carter Eskew, a Washington political consultant...