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Article: Hispanic vote favors Daley by 2-1 margin // Washington's old coalition crumbles
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 1, 1989
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The "black-Hispanic" coalition forged by former Mayor Harold
Washington broke up Tuesday as Hispanic voters provided Richard M.
Daley with even greater support than they gave Washington two years
ago.
Early returns in the major Hispanic wards show that Daley won by
a 2-1 margin, compared to 52 percent of the vote won by Washington in
the 1987 primary.
"I think what Hispanics are looking for now is a coalition of
interests, not a coalition of color," said Juan Andrade, executive
director of the Midwest/Northeast Voter Registration and Education
Project.
He said his group conducted extensive exit polls showing that at
least 69 percent of the Hispanic vote went to Daley. An exit poll ...