Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liston beat opponent Rudd W. Coffey '97 by a vote of 37 to 35 in a runoff election. In the first vote, Liston and Coffey had 27 and 26 votes respectively, eliminating the pre-vote favorite, Randall A. Fine '96, who had 21 votes...
That could leave Balladur and Chirac facing each other in the May 7 runoff. Chirac's hopes would then depend on winning substantial support among traditionally leftist voters. He is already wooing them with a social program that includes emergency job programs for the long-term unemployed and on-the-job training for young people. But credibility is a problem. Chirac has changed his views so often--he went from state dirigisme in the '70s to Reagan-style free-marketry in the '80s--that many people are skeptical...
...voter guides and get-out-the- vote campaigns are ostensibly nonpartisan, meaning the amount spent does not have to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission. As a result, official spending calculations can be misleading. In September, eight-term Representative Mike Synar, also in Oklahoma, narrowly lost a Democratic runoff primary to Virgil Cooper, a retired principal. Cooper's victory seemed all the more astounding since Synar, the well-funded incumbent, had outspent him by a huge margin. But in fact, if all the money invested in supposedly nonpartisan voter-education efforts by interest groups opposed to Synar were added...
Against considerable odds, they are succeeding. In Florida's Republican primary Sept. 8, Jeb polled 46%, 10 points higher than anyone had predicted, in a tough field of six candidates. Last week the rival candidate in a runoff decided to withdraw, leaving Jeb as the party's nominee. In a poll taken several weeks before the primary, he had pulled to within 3 percentage points of incumbent Governor Lawton Chiles. In Texas the most recent poll showed young George leading Ann Richards by a point, in spite of her enormous popularity and 60% job-approval rating...
Cooper--who said he spent just $16,900 on his runoff campaign, $2,000 of it from his own pocket acknowledged that some of his votes were protests against Synar...