Word: runoff
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...Duke's campaign was not farfetched. He won a place in the runoff by defeating incumbent Republican Buddy Roemer, a Harvard-educated reformer whose imperious manner doomed him to a single term. Duke won blue-collar voters, largely rural, young and male. But he also made inroads into the middle class, capturing conservatives from both parties. If the election had been held just after the primary, Duke would have...
...guided Houston through the oil bust and cleaned up the police force and reformed city government. But last week voters unceremoniously ejected Mayor Kathy Whitmire from office after 10 years. Land developer Bob Lanier and state representative Sylvester Turner placed first and second, respectively; they will meet in a runoff next month...
...anti-liberal, antiquota, anti-welfare campaign had a strong racial undercurrent that could prove embarrassing to the national G.O.P. -- especially since ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, running as a Republican, may well ride the same themes into the Louisiana Governor's mansion in this week's runoff...
Duke, 41, faces Democratic former Gov. Edwin Edwards, in a runoff election November 16. He gained notoriety as a Klan leader in the 1970s and neo-Nazi sympathizer in the 1980s, but says time has softened his racist views...
...Kathy Whitmire trailed wealthy developer Bob Lanier and state Rep. Sylvester Turner in her bid for a fifth term in Houston in a race in which the poor local economy was an issue. The two top vote getters would be forced into a runoff...