Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate focused on the issues of runoff primaries and immigration policy, and the candidates found little to disagree about. The liveliest moments came when Mondale and Hart rebuked Jackson for not repudiating Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader who made what sounded like a death threat against a black reporter. Mondale asserted that "what Farrakhan said was poison," and Hart wondered why the Muslim had not been subjected to criminal prosecution.* Jackson replied that he had "disassociated myself from the message but not from the messenger" and spoke in a preacher's tones of "forgiveness...
Jackson also hinted at a softening of his demand that the party pledge itself to abolish the runoff primary system, which in nine Southern states and Oklahoma requires a second primary if no candidate wins a majority in the first. Campaigning in Texas last week, he spoke of creating a "blue-ribbon commission" to study possible reforms in all electoral practices that pose barriers to black candidates and added, "I'm far more concerned about the principle of equity and parity than the strategy to achieve it." On Friday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt said he planned...
...Helms letter drew quick rebuttals from the White House and congressional leaders. Asserting that Ronald Reagan had "full confidence" in Pickering, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes contended that the Administration had not taken sides in the runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and ARENA'S Roberto d'Aubuisson. But in a speech on the Senate floor, Helms expanded his attack, contending that the State Department "bent over backwards to facilitate a Duarte victory" and that a member of the U.S. embassy staff in San Salvador told ARENA officials the U.S. would not support...
...Aubuisson were angling for the support of Francisco José ("Chachi") Guerrero, leader of the conservative National Conciliation Party, Pickering held talks with the Salvadoran politician and explained U.S. congressional attitudes toward D'Aubuisson, but stopped short of advising political neutrality for Guerrero in the election runoff. Nonetheless, neutrality is the position that Guerrero eventually took...
...support for El Salvador, but his chances seemed to be diminishing. When Francisco José Guerrero, who won 19.3% in the March 25 election, refused to throw his support to D'Aubuisson, Christian Democratic pollsters began to predict that Duarte could win as much as 60% of the runoff vote. Duarte appeared to gain a tactical advantage last week when El Salvador's provisional President, Alvaro Magaña, vetoed an ARENA-sponsored proposal for changing the May 6 voting procedure. The change would have scrapped the country's computerized voting lists, a central feature...