Down Ballot

How a Local Campaign Became a National Referendum on Abortion

Patrick Wohl (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04547-9 (ISBN)

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When an obscure primary election met the culture wars In 1990, a suburban Chicago race for the Republican Party nomination for state representative unexpectedly became a national proxy battle over abortion in the United States. But the hard-fought primary also illustrated the overlooked importance of down-ballot contests in America’s culture wars. Patrick Wohl offers the dramatic account of a rollercoaster campaign that, after attracting political celebrities and a media circus, came down to thirty-one votes, a coin toss to determine the winner, and a recount fight that set a precedent for how to count dimpled chads. As the story unfolds, Wohl provides a rare nuts-and-bolts look at an election for state office from its first days through the Illinois Supreme Court decision that decided the winner--and set the stage for a decisive 1992 rematch.

A compelling political page-turner, Down Ballot takes readers behind the scenes of a legendary Illinois election.

Patrick Wohl is a former campaign staffer on races for president, governor, state senate, and state representative, and on ballot initiatives across the country.

Acknowledgments Introduction

Amendment XXVII
Rosemary Mulligan
Blood Terrorists
Henry Penny
Two Cents
On the Trail
Raccoons, Reporters, and Rapists’ Rights
GOTV
Dimpled Chads
Heads or Tails
Rematch
Talk of the Town
Goldwater Girls

Epilogue

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	15 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-04547-5 / 0252045475
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04547-9 / 9780252045479
Zustand	Neuware