Presidential Elections 1988 Pennsylvania

The Rev. Jesse Jackson challenged Democratic presidential rival Michael S. Dukakis on Saturday night to commit himself to a federal budget that would double spending on education and increase outlays for Head Start and the war on drugs. But Dukakis did not respond directly during the televised campaign debate, which was held in advance of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. "I'm doing that already," he said, referring to his role as governor of Massachusetts.

George Bush pulled out a narrow victory over Michael S. Dukakis to take Pennsylvania's 25 electoral votes and popular Republican Sen. John Heinz won a third term by a landslide. In a race that was too close to call throughout the early evening hours when Bush was piling up decisive margins elsewhere, Bush took 51% of the vote to 49% for Dukakis.

Although Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis took another big step toward winning the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, interviews with Pennsylvania voters by the Los Angeles Times Poll showed that he still has a long way to go before unifying the party for the November election. Dukakis has a delicate, twofold problem, the survey illustrated: He must persuade skeptical supporters of the Rev.

Until the second presidential debate, Maria Lazarich was thinking seriously about casting her presidential ballot for Democrat Michael S. Dukakis. "He has some good ideas about day-care centers and health care," she said as she and her husband, Joseph, a retired New York City police officer, browsed through a neighborhood department store.

Final returns from the Pennsylvania primary showed that Democrats chose former Philadelphia controller Joseph Vignola to challenge two-term Republican Sen. John Heinz, and picked a backer of political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. in a U.S. House primary. The results of Tuesday's primary in suburban Philadelphia's 5th Congressional District left Democrats embarrassed, and the stunned loser declared Wednesday that "people better wake up."

Pennsylvania Democrats cast ballots in a primary election today that polls predict will give Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis a big boost in his drive for his party's presidential nomination. The Republican primary almost certainly will lock in the Republican nomination for Vice President George Bush. According to the Associated Press, Bush had 1,081 delegates as of Monday.

George Bush pulled out a narrow victory over Michael S. Dukakis to take Pennsylvania's 25 electoral votes and popular Republican Sen. John Heinz won a third term by a landslide. In a race that was too close to call throughout the early evening hours when Bush was piling up decisive margins elsewhere, Bush took 51% of the vote to 49% for Dukakis.

Sitting in his warehouse office on warm spring days, Neal Bennett leans back in his chair, dreams again of the smell of neat's-foot oil on a fresh baseball glove and talks nostalgically of summers past when he was an executive in the minor leagues. Then his mind snaps forward to his present life and--most especially--the life ahead for his son. Today, after two terrifying bouts of unemployment, he still misses working in baseball, but he knows he's lucky to have any job at all.

With characteristic diligence, Michael S. Dukakis' aides had selected a remote corner of the Delaware River waterfront here for the Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential front-runner to address the television cameras on the need to modernize this city's aging port without fear of distraction.

Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis won a smashing victory over the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, moving significantly closer to his goal of gaining the delegate majority needed for the Democratic presidential nomination. Vice President George Bush, who has been running virtually unopposed since Kansas Sen. Bob Dole dropped out of the Republican contest last month, locked up the Republican nomination with his victory here.

Final returns from the Pennsylvania primary showed that Democrats chose former Philadelphia controller Joseph Vignola to challenge two-term Republican Sen. John Heinz, and picked a backer of political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. in a U.S. House primary. The results of Tuesday's primary in suburban Philadelphia's 5th Congressional District left Democrats embarrassed, and the stunned loser declared Wednesday that "people better wake up."

Although Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis took another big step toward winning the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, interviews with Pennsylvania voters by the Los Angeles Times Poll showed that he still has a long way to go before unifying the party for the November election. Dukakis has a delicate, twofold problem, the survey illustrated: He must persuade skeptical supporters of the Rev.

Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis won a smashing victory over the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, moving significantly closer to his goal of gaining the delegate majority needed for the Democratic presidential nomination. Vice President George Bush, who has been running virtually unopposed since Kansas Sen. Bob Dole dropped out of the Republican contest last month, locked up the Republican nomination with his victory here.

Pennsylvania Democrats cast ballots in a primary election today that polls predict will give Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis a big boost in his drive for his party's presidential nomination. The Republican primary almost certainly will lock in the Republican nomination for Vice President George Bush. According to the Associated Press, Bush had 1,081 delegates as of Monday.

With characteristic diligence, Michael S. Dukakis' aides had selected a remote corner of the Delaware River waterfront here for the Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential front-runner to address the television cameras on the need to modernize this city's aging port without fear of distraction.

Campaigning in the style of the President he frequently cites, Harry S. Truman, Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis made a 100-mile whistle-stop tour Sunday across the ravaged, rugged hills of western Pennsylvania. With two days until the state's Democratic primary, the Massachusetts governor took his increasingly confident campaign into several of the gritty, gray towns surrounded by dark iron foundries and shuttered steel mills.

Campaigning in the style of the President he frequently cites, Harry S. Truman, Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis made a 100-mile whistle-stop tour Sunday across the ravaged, rugged hills of western Pennsylvania. With two days until the state's Democratic primary, the Massachusetts governor took his increasingly confident campaign into several of the gritty, gray towns surrounded by dark iron foundries and shuttered steel mills.

Until the second presidential debate, Maria Lazarich was thinking seriously about casting her presidential ballot for Democrat Michael S. Dukakis. "He has some good ideas about day-care centers and health care," she said as she and her husband, Joseph, a retired New York City police officer, browsed through a neighborhood department store.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson challenged Democratic presidential rival Michael S. Dukakis on Saturday night to commit himself to a federal budget that would double spending on education and increase outlays for Head Start and the war on drugs. But Dukakis did not respond directly during the televised campaign debate, which was held in advance of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. "I'm doing that already," he said, referring to his role as governor of Massachusetts.

Sitting in his warehouse office on warm spring days, Neal Bennett leans back in his chair, dreams again of the smell of neat's-foot oil on a fresh baseball glove and talks nostalgically of summers past when he was an executive in the minor leagues. Then his mind snaps forward to his present life and--most especially--the life ahead for his son. Today, after two terrifying bouts of unemployment, he still misses working in baseball, but he knows he's lucky to have any job at all.