Word: republican
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...those numbers were essential to his narrowvictory over Republican Rudolph Giuliani, a formerdistrict attorney who ran on a law-and-orderplatform...
David N. Dinkins won election as New York City's first Black mayor, while L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia clung to a slender lead over Republican J. Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation's first elected Black governor...
With 99 percent of the Virginia precinctscounted, Lt. Gov. Wilder had 880,955 votes or 50percent. His Republican rival, Coleman, had876,439 votes or 50 percent...
...same time, Democrats outside Cambridge are using the Republican threat to drum up support for their primary candidacies...
Last April an estimated 900 people from the University attended the first-of-its-kind March on Washington to defend a woman's right to choose an abortion. The national situation has since become more grave for defenders of this right, with an increasingly antagonistic Republican administration in office and a Supreme Court handing down decisions like this past July's answer in Webster v. Reproductive Services, which made it legal for a state to restrict a woman's access to abortion...