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Article: Jackson Drawing Few New Voters, Polls Show;More Than 90% of His Backers in Large Primaries Also Voted in '84
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 9, 1988
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Jesse L. Jackson, the Democratic presidential candidate whose
strength and political clout is typically described in terms of the
new voters he can bring to his party, has in fact attracted few new
voters in 1988, exit polls show.
Jackson, who tells audiences and reporters that he is expanding
the party by bringing in "new" and "renewed" voters, is relying
largely on this reputation to attain his own goals-redistributing
delegates in his favor and moving the party toward an accommodation
of his policy views.
But an examination of ABC News primary election exit polls the
past two months indicates that Jackson has not pulled new voters into
the party as he did during his first presidential ...