Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis won the Minnesota Democratic presidential caucuses last night in a demonstration of voter appeal outside his native New England. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.) were locked in a tight race for second place...
...well in these two states which are a long way from Massachusetts and very much in the backyard of some of the rest of these candidates," Dukakis said in New York City, referring to Gephardt and Simon...
With 93 percent of the South Dakota vote counted, Gephardt had 45 percent, followed by Dukakis at 30 percent. Trailing were Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.) at 8 percent, Gary Hart at 6 percent, Jackson at 5 percent and Simon at 5 percent...
...with 22 percent of the results reported in Minnesota, Dukakis had 34 percent, Simon 19 percent, Jackson 18 percent and Gephardt 8 percent. Eighteen percent of the delegates were uncommitted. Gore and Hart each had I percent...
Dukakis was looking for a victory outside his native New England, while Simon needed a strong showing to keep his faltering campaign going when attention shifts to the South for Super Tuesday, March 8, when 20 states will hold primaries or caucuses...