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...ballot last Tuesday, of course. But two Democrats he campaigned hard for, New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Governor James Florio, were turned out of office. Their defeats were the more galling because of the identity of their Republican conquerors. Former prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani had lost to Dinkins four years earlier; Christine Todd Whitman was a relative novice who had held only one minor elective office in New Jersey and proposed pie-in-the-sky tax cuts...
...mayor of Detroit for 20 years, sought to anoint Sharon McPhail as his successor; she was buried under a 12-point landslide by Dennis Archer. Further underlining their anti- incumbent mood, voters in Maine, New York City and nearby Suffolk County enacted term limits for officeholders, including Mayor-elect Giuliani, while New Jerseyites passed a referendum that will give them the authority to remove any elected official, including Governor-elect Whitman, even before his or her term...
...votes were counted into the night,challengers Whitman and Giuliani were leading, butnarrowly...
Former federal prosecutor Giuliani led 50percent to 49 percent with 40 percent of the votecounted in New York City. A Dinkins loss in NewYork wouldn't do much to the overwhelming edgeDemocrats enjoy at city halls, but a Giuliani winwould put the biggest city in GOP hands for thefirst time in nearly a quarter-century...
...With no candidate who stands out as a clear vote for competence, voter support is breaking down much as it did last time around: along racial lines, almost by default, with blacks and liberal whites lining up for Dinkins and white ethnics backing Giuliani. The swing factor is the city's growing Hispanic electorate, which gave Dinkins 64% of its vote in 1989 but may deliver less for him this time around. Whichever candidate they elect, New Yorkers can only hope that their new chief executive will be modest enough to borrow a page or two from the new breed...