University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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had better experience and qualifications for the position.
"I'm prepared to step in because I've been doing the things a district attorney does," he
Glover and Flory each campaigned on the theme of having better experience.
Flory is head of the criminal division of the state attorney general's office. He had charged that Glover, Lawrence city prosecutor, has had too little experience trying felony cases. Glover had argued that Flory was a superior experience trying cases in Douglass County.
Experience also was the key issue in the 3rd District county commissioner's race. Rhedes said He said his experience with the district was sufficient to win the better candidate in the eyes of voters.
Rhodes is former president of the First National Bank of Lawrence and a county
Of the Rhodes victory, Lubensky said, "I wish him well. He obviously has the best potential."
David Berkowitz, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee, said Johnson's 20 years as sheiriff made it difficult for Rothwell to defeat him.
"It's hard to run against an institution," he said. "Somebody's who's been in office and is now running for a seat."
During the campaign, Rothwell had called for a reorganization of the sheriff's office.
With 42 of 46 precincts reporting, Johnson had 17 023 votes to Rothwell's 10 866. Johnson
Rothwell could not be reached for comment last night. Berkowitz said he had expected the race to be closer.
received 61 percent of the vote
"Our polls indicated some extensive movement toward Rothwell, and we thought it would be worthwhile."
In the clerk's race, incumbent Jaimes piled up margins of almost 3-10 or better in rural precincts. With 38 of 46 precincts reporting, Sampson had carried only two precincts, both in Lawrence. Jaimes had 15,152 votes to Sampson's 7,936.
Welsh said that she didn't see her victory in the treasurer's race as an upset.
"I went into today thinking it would not be a landside either way," she said.
Sampson conceded the contest at 11:15 p.m., congratulating Jaimes at the counter in the courthouse where Jaimes was supervising election returns
Welsh was pleased with the high voter turnout. she said.
"It's a privilege," she said. "More than anything she I want this for Douglas County
vervynck, who was first elected in 1877 and had held two consecutive terms as treasurer, could not be reached for comment about the election results.
Walsh said, "I feel as if everything I've done was positive. I just presented the simple facts that the taxpayers needed to be aware of.
"It was obvious the taxpayers were well-educated."
OVERLAND PARK — State Sen. Jan Meyers, R Overlana Park, speaks to Rep. Larry Winn Jr., after winning the seat he held in the House of Representatives for 18 years. Meyers
got 57 percent of the vote to beat Democrat Jack Reardon, mayor of Kansas City, Kan., for the 3rd Congressional District seat. Reardon received 43 percent of the vote.
Vigil
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Cries of agreement echoed in the Cam palile's tower.
"We are only sleeping as a nation," said Leo Redmond, Young Democrats vice-president "We will continue to fight and forward. We've not abandoned bone."
Barron said that the lighted candles also were hope for Central America.
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"The candle for the people of Central America has gone out," she said. "I feel sick for the people of Central America. We need it through letters or whatever that we care."
Todd Cohen, the Mondale-Ferraro committee chairman for the group, said it was important to remember that the College Young Democrats had been more active than the College Republicans. His remarks were met with cheers.
Myers said the young Democrats were a patriotic party.
Election
"We don't wrap ugly beliefs of imperialism in patriotism," she said.
Refrains of "God Bless America" rang through the tower as the group huddled together. Tears filled some members' eyes. Thirty minutes after they had gathered, the group dispersed. Some went to the Douglas County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets, to watch final election returns roll in.
four years — summed up Mondeale's defeat shortly after midnight, saying "He probably ran against the most popular figure in the history of the American government."
In the most bitter Senate contest, Sen Jesse Helms, the godfather of the conservative movement, defeated Gov. Jim Hint in Georgia in a race that cost a record $21 million.
Republicans won at least eight of the 13 governors races — Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Utah and West Virginia; but voters ousted North Dakota's Republican Gov. Allen Olson.
REAGAN WON THE votes of the same coalition that put him in office in 1980 — men, blue-collar workers, white Catholics and independents. About a quarter of the Democratic leadership calls his call for four years to complete what he called his "second American revolution."
But those voters, when asked about the Issues, sided with Mondale — favoring abortion; supporting the Equal Rights Amendment; seeking arms reduction, lower defense spending and peace with the Soviet Union; expressing sentiment against school prayers.
In congratulating Reagan on his victory, Mondale did not retreat on the issues as he had done in 1967. He
"Do not impress this fight didn't end tonight." Monaldale told the young people who had been there.
found the seeds of victory. Let us fight on. Let us fight on."
AN HOUR LATER Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman vice president presidential candidate in 1984, died.
"American women will never again be second class citizens," Ferraro vowed. The three-term congresswoman from Queens campaigned to get the nomination, and was expected to remain a major figure on the America political scene, perhaps running against Sen. Alphonse D'Amato of New York in 1986.
In no area did the election show the vote so polarized as the South
The networks said Reagan was taking 85 percent of the white vote in some southern states while Mondale was winning more than 90 percent of the black vote.
JESSE JACKSON, WHO this year was the first black to make a serious bid for the presidential nomination and then campaigned for Mondale, said he will continue his campaign to build a "Rainbow Coalition" to stop the movement's 'movements' to Reagan domestic policies.
"We'll smile through our tears and keep on pushing," he said.
Reagan's age — at 73 he is the oldest president ever — did not become a significant issue, according to polls of voters conducted by ABC 10 percent said age was a concern to them. The president also wanted to support among young and first-time voters.
Heavy voting was reported across the nation and a record turnout of about 95 million — just over half the voting age population — had been predicted.
SOME POLITICAL LEADERS had predicted the turnout might be higher this year because of massive voter registration drives made by both the Democrats and Republicans but there were no definitive figures available election night.
At one point Reagan talked about a "realignment" election—a win so big that it would threaten the Democrats' status as the majority party in the nation. While that appeared unlikely, Republicans were showing significant gains in the South, establishing a new base for the GOP vote in that region for future elections.
Another likely beneficiary of the compelling Reagan victory was his running mate, Vice President George Bush, who has never publicly denied for his own bid for the White House in 1988.
ALTHOUGH REAGANS STRONG personal popularity dominated the election and kept it from becoming a horse race, voters faced a sharp ideological choice between the old-century incumbent in a half-century and perhaps the last of the old-line Rosevelt liberal Democrats.
Reagan asked voters to give him four more years to continue to build America's military strength with record peaceatime defense spending. He also said the government spending should be cut, although
he has beledged to protect Social Security and Medicare benefits for the elderly
Asking voters if they are better off now than when Jimmy Carter was president and Mondale vice president, Reagan said unnaturally, "I'll go down now from when he was elected in 1980."
FOUR MORE YEARS in office could give Reagan a historic role in shaping the nation's future for the rest of the century. Five or more Supreme Court vacancies could occur in that time, allowing Reagan to shape the court's philosophy for another generation.
Even as the results came in, the Rev. Rerry Falwell, a key leader of the Religious Right, said the so-called unfitted social agenda of neagan's 1980 victory could come back to the fore.
Fallwell predicted that Reagan will choose Supreme Court justices who believe in "the sanctity of human life" — that is, against the law — and who are "strict constitutionalists."
Mondale charged during the campaign that if Reagan were re-elected, Falwell and the Religious Right would be selecting the court justices.
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