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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1985
Parties set '86 election goals
The Associated Press
Democrats and Republicans informally inaugurated their 1986 election campaigns yesterday, posting rival claims of success on the day after off-year balloting produced a GOP runaway in New Jersey but a historic Democratic sweep of Virginia.
Several of the nation's big-city mayors savored new terms in municipal elections: Ed Koch in New York, Coleman Young in Detroit and Kathy Whitmire in Houston. Miami's six-term Mayor Maurice Ferre was the most notable casualty. He ran third behind Raul Massivel and Xavier Suarez, who square off in a run-off election next Tuesday.
Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. hailed moderate Governor-elect Gerald L. Ballies in Virginia a winner, and said first-time statewide victories Tuesday by a black and a woman showed a powerful, historic and positive force.
Noting that President Reagan had campaigned for the losing GOP ticket in Virginia, Kirk said Democrats need have no fear of
presidential popularity as they bid to win control of the Senate in 1986.
But at the White House, spokesman Larry Speakes countered that Republican Gov. Thomas Kean was re-elected by a landslide in New Jersey, despite the significant damage (CAP) control of the State Assembly for the first time since 1972. "We won two out of three," he said.
Kean said he told Reagan he wanted to make New Jersey's new GOP coaliation a model for national Republican politics.
"I want to send a message to Washington that the Republican Party can do whatever it wants to do if it includes all the people in its plans," said Kean.
The president celebrated his 1984 re-election anniversary with a speech to party officials and campaign workers in which he said the GOP had a commanding lead in polls that gauged support of 18 to 24 year-old voters.
"We hold a lead, in other words, on the years ahead," he said, without
mentioning the results in Virginia and New Jersey.
Leaders of both parties had agreed in advance that New Jersey and Virginia were the key battlegrounds as they looked ahead to the 1986 congressional elections, with the GOP looking for signs of a nationwide Republican realignment and Democrats hoping for a comeback after Reagan's 49-state re-election sweep in 1984.
Kirk said, "The Virginia race was another test by the Republicans of their realignment effort and in that regard. . . once again they have failed in that test."
Kirk said Democratic defeats in the New Jersey assembly were largely the result of Kean's popularity.
But Speakes said that in Virginia, the Democratic success was because of the popularity of outgoing Gov. Charles Robb, whom he said often pursued policies "very much like Ronald Reagan . . . I think the Democratic party in Virginia spent most of its time trying to distance itself from the national party."
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