WHUT Tavis Smiley October 7, 2013
In 88, you may recall that jesse did better than any other second place candidate. Those persons that we got registered voted for me in 1989. It was a fourway race. The metropolitan transit authority. The most articulate and knowledgeable person i have ever encountered. The conventional wisdom was that we would not win. You have to get 40 to avoid a runoff. Election, general 9 11 has not yet occurred. A margin of only 50,000. To what do you attribute that . My response was always, why do you ask . The answer, i believe, is racism. We lost by about the same margin in 1990. In the book i mention...