Word: voting
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...topsy-turvy world of political analysis, this Virginia victory was measured against the unrealistically optimistic expectations raised by the pre-election surveys and as a result was somehow found wanting. According to the final CBS/New York Times exit polls, Wilder won an impressive 39% of the white vote. In 1988 Democratic primaries, Jackson never came close to this type of biracial mandate. Moreover, Wilder ran neck and neck with Coleman among all voters over 45, the group most likely to remember the era of "massive resistance" in the mid-1950s, when Prince Edward County shut down its public schools rather...
Political pundits have vied to quantify what is virtually unknowable: the precise number of Democratic-leaning white Virginians who could not bring themselves to vote for a black candidate. Polls are unreliable on this point, since few voters are secure enough in their bigotry to confess such blatant bias. Wilder strategists, perhaps reflecting their candidate's de-emphasis of racial issues, argue that their putative lead was always exaggerated. "In none of our polling did we expect to have Doug much over 51%," says Wilder pollster Mike Donilon. In other words, if the election was always destined...
...prevalent interpretation is that Wilder was forced to eke out such a narrow victory only because he was a black candidate. The most common benchmark is to measure Wilder's vote against the come-from-behind 54% to 46% triumph of Democrat Donald Beyer over Edwina ("Eddy") Dalton in the battle for Lieutenant Governor. What gives piquancy to this comparison is that Beyer, a Volvo dealer and political neophyte, was running against the widow of a former Governor. "Wilder would have won a victory similar to Beyer's if he had been white," contends Sabato. But this...
...Paul Goldman, Wilder's longtime backstage strategist, explains, "One of the things we learned in 1985 is that if you don't think about race, it doesn't matter." Wilder won with what, compared with last week's results, seems almost a landslide margin: nearly 52% of the vote...
...proposal receives a yes vote by the full council on Sunday, the social activities committee will bid for an April concert, Chair Guhan Subramanian '91-'92 said yesterday...