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Article: Moderates' Day? (recent election of four black "moderates") (editorial)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- December 4, 1989
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Moderates' Day?
The election of four black candidates to high office in important localities on the same day should indicate that a new progressive politics is developing around the country. If so, the indications have been largely ignored. Even before voters went to the polls in the scattered off-off-year elections, Democratic politicians and media commentators were straining to put a very different spin on the predicted victories of David Dinkins in New York, L. Douglas Wilder in Virginia, John Daniels in New Haven and Norm Rice in Seattle. The conventional wisdom quickly produced the line that "black moderates" won precisely because of their moderation, which ...
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