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...another low-turnout presidential primary, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won 57% of the vote to former California Governor Jerry Brown's 26%. Clinton's win means that he now has three-fourths of the delegates he needs to secure the nomination. George Bush beat Patrick Buchanan by 77% to 23%, and though the victory still left the President a few delegates shy of clinching the + G.O.P. nomination, he seized it nonetheless. "It's wonderful," he said, "to be officially over...
Jackson says politics can still be the salvation of blacks if they would vote in larger numbers for candidates who sympathize with urban needs. He notes that black turnout in this year's presidential primaries has fallen off significantly, compared with 1988's. "I think we are in an era of limited choices until such time as we activate our numbers and start taking care of business at the ballot box," he says. "We're sitting on the means of our economic and social liberation and not using the power we have." Some critics point out that poor blacks often...
Though Coradin conceded that the turnout wasfairly high by law school standards, he said heexpected at least 70 percent of the class to voteon this topic...
...assuage fears within his party that his nomination could lead to disaster in November against George Bush. Two-thirds of New York Democrats said they wanted another candidate in the race, and only a dismaying 27% of eligible voters bothered to show up at the polls, the lowest turnout since the current primary system has been created...
...MARCH 17, in a national referendum with an 85 percent voter turnout, South African whites voted overwhelmingly (69 percent for, 31 against) to end the system of apartheid. This was no political gimmick on the part of the governing National Party, nor was it a merely grudging acceptance of reality...