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Article: POLL GIVES BULGER 2 TO 1 LEAD ON DE JONG BUT SURVEY FINDS THE GOP CHALLENGER STRONGER IN BACK BAY, BEACON HILL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 2, 1990
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Bolstered by solid backing from his South Boston neighborhood,
Senate President William Bulger holds a comfortable 2-to-1 lead
over rival John De Jong, his first serious Republican challenger in
20 years, a Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll shows.
The poll of 400 voters, taken Monday and Tuesday nights, shows
Bulger getting 54 percent and De Jong receiving 24 percent of the
vote, with 15 percent undecided. A third candidate, Janie Dupass of
the New Alliance Party, has 5 percent.
The survey, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5
percentage points, challenges the political speculation, mostly
promoted by GOP operatives, that the 56-year-old Bulger, a
dominating Beacon Hill figure during his ...