minority president

The coalition of these groups was key in electing the nation's first minority president.

A minority President (losing the popular vote, in the 1988 example, by about five million) would begin his tenure with an enormous disadvantage.

With not quite forty percent of the total vote, Lincoln was very much a minority president; but he was president.

As a minority president, Lincoln could only reign by placating certain great powers and dominations.

"Mr. Blair, I am a minority president.

She noted that her late husband, the Rev. Dr. L. Maynard Catchings, was the first minority president of the local school board.

The Constitution allows an open-party system that analysts say could produce as many as eight serious candidates and a minority president with 30 percent of the vote or less.

But the difference is, our stake-raising ended in the election of an ethnic Minority President, and yours ends in another CiF rant.

Mr. Dukakis may be closing but is still behind in California, and probably must sweep the seven big states listed above even to be a minority President.

At the election on November 5th, Wilson was elected by 6,286,000 votes out of 15,310,000 votes, thus being a minority President by two million and a half votes.

The line-item veto would hand over unchecked power to a minority President with minority support in Congress, while opponents would have to muster two-thirds support to override the President's veto.

-would split three ways their party and the Democrat McClellan would win, as a minority president, in just the same way that Lincoln had won in 1860 when the Democrats broke in two.

In 1970, the Board of Trustees appointed President Clifton Wharton, MSU's first African-American president and the first minority president of a major public American university.

Many of the uncounted votes were from rural areas that remain PRI strongholds, making it likely that Mr. Zedillo could avoid becoming the first minority President in his party's 65-year history.

A minority president, just a few months into his term, derided by many as intellectually inadequate for his job, he is likely to be judged, at least in the months ahead, on whether he can take command and act decisively.

It is curious that the Liberals who had called John F. Kennedy's microscopic victory over Nixon in 1960 a "mandate" were now calling Nixon a minority president and screaming for a coalition with the Left.

Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx Borough President, is the Board of Estimate's only Hispanic member, and his borough is the only one, based on demographics, likely to elect a minority president in the near future.

But you also knew that the moment he said, yes, he would lose the South two years later, which he did when the Democratic Party cracked in half, thereby making it possible for you to become President, a minority President."

This is not to suggest that winning some Southern states is impossible, then or in the future; nor does it mean that the Democrats should aim for, or could only win, an electoral-college victory that would put a minority President in office.

It decimated the top ranks of the Democratic Congressional leadership, awarded the Republicans control of both houses of Congress and most of the big-state governorships, and confronted President Clinton, who was elected as a minority President, with a stark problem of political survival.

He came to office as a minority president, accused of being a war-monger who was indifferent to the internal social and economic problems of the cities and the races, but he is now arguing for peace, and social justice - talking like a conservative but acting like a progressive.

On this basis America's powerful Liberal pundits and social savants announced in a shrill chorus that Mr. Nixon was a minority President, and that in order to govern properly he should form a sort of coalition government to include "the alienated urban poor and the dissident youth."

"Far from being downcast or tentative about his new rule as a 'minority President,' " wrote David McCullough in his biography, "Truman," which has had many White House readers the last couple of months, the President developed "a free-swinging style with Congress as the main target."

Senator William A. Aniskovich, a Republican from Branford, and the minority president pro-tem in the Senate, said in his recorded message last week, for example, that he wants to "help the Republican Party form a message that restores the people's hope in the institutions of government and government's ability to solve problems."