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Without Dole, Kemp will have a chance
The election will come down to the wire. Like Nixon-Kennedy, no one can possibly know until all the ballots are counted. Maybe a major newspaper will screw up an early deadline story a la "Dewey beats Truman." No one will know the outcome. But I have this creeping feeling in the pit of my skull, unfortunately, that Jack Kemp will win. The year 2000 elections have begun.
The conscience of the Democratic party died last Wednesday. Chet Blaylock ran against incumbent Gov. Marc Racicot after no one else was willing to take on the task. He knew he had little chance of winning against the popular governor, but he wanted to keep alive the Democrats' ideals about water quality, reproductive freedom and an increase in the minimum wage. These issues are very real in students' futures. In an age of public cynicism about politics, Blaylock was an official who was genuinely concerned about the future.