Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis and the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson are running a tight race in Wisconsin, while neither Sen. Paul Simon (D.-Ill.) or Sen. Albert A. Gore, Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.) are serious threats in today's crucial primary contest, poltical analysts and campaign workers said yesterday...
...candidacy. Jackson not only ran up landslide margins in Detroit but also attracted a startling measure of white support, carrying cities like Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and Saginaw. Nearly complete returns gave Jackson an awesome 54% of the total caucus vote, compared with Dukakis' 29%, while Richard Gephardt (13%), Paul Simon (2%) and Albert Gore (2%) trailed badly. Although the precise delegate breakdown remained murky at week's end, Jackson may have won half the 138 convention seats at stake. These figures were a further blow to Dukakis, whose run-everywhere strategy was in jeopardy after successive setbacks in Illinois...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (EMI). Revivifying. Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony breathe fire into Mahler's mystical "Resurrection" Symphony...
Swapping numbers. Paul Simon and Bruce Babbitt have quietly struck a deal. In a maneuver arranged by a Babbitt aide, some Simon supporters who have reached the $1,000 donation ceiling are contributing to Babbitt's campaign on the condition that an equal number of Babbitt donors do the same for Simon. That helps both sides get around the $1,000 limit and increases the matching funds available to Simon...
...Going into last week, the seven-man field had finally seemed to narrow to three alive-and-well candidates: Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson and Al Gore. But the Illinois primary somehow served as a reverse winnow, adding to the list of viable candidates rather than killing anyone off. Paul Simon, whose death in New Hampshire meant that he could not win a delegate anywhere on Super Tuesday, resurrected himself sufficiently to win as a favorite son. Richard Gephardt -- who was stillborn at the new year, resuscitated in Iowa and then died aborning in the South -- is taking advantage...