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A12 Dally Record, Northwest N.J. Wednesday, November 9, 1988 ELECTION '00 Senate How the counties voted Popular vote Lautenberg 1,267,411 i to I 1 I Morris Ny) i Continued from Page A1 at 9:45 p.m. He was joined by his wife. Judi. and two children.

"At the end. people began to accept me" as a New Jerseyan. Dawkins told reporters. "I don't see this as anything but a first attempt." He seemed to be leaving the door open to a future bid for office or even a position in the Bush White House, although Dawkins said such speculation was premature. His supporters chanted.

"Pete in '94." Dawkins. his aides, and other Republicans agreed he did not find his rhythm until late in the race and might have been able to turn it around with more time. Dawkins spent $8 million about matching Lautenberg's expenditures and his campaign is almost $1 million in debt. Dawkins may have been hurt by his inability to match Lautenberg's television advertising campaign in the final weeks. Lautenberg had twice as much cash on hand as the challenger near the end of the race, and Dawkins was forced to borrow money to sustain a television presence.

Gov. Thomas H. Kean called Dawkins a "gallant warrior" who "needed a few more weeks and another million dollars." Other Republicans said Dawkins relied too heavily on the media and should have concentrated more on a grass roots effort. State Sen. Leanna Brown.

R-Morris. said that without a primary battle in the spring. Dawkins never learned how to energize the troops. She said party workers had Voters returned incumbent Democrat Frank Lautenberg to the Senate, Associated Press over Republican Peter Dawkins. Mrcf 7S Monmouth II Burlington Ocn II lw Atlantic ner.

Dawkins was considered one of the Republicans' best hopes for making gains in the Democrat-controlled. Senate. From the moment he announced his candidacy last April, he hammered at Lautenberg's first-term performance in the Senate, calling him ineffective and lackluster. Dawkins charged that Lautenberg failed to deliver on his 1982 campaign promise to "put New-Jersey first." He said the state dropped from 46th to 50th in terms of return on federal tax dollars since Lautenberg took office: pollution continued to plague the state's shoreline and drugs neighborhoods. i There are 3,997,333 registered voters in New Jersey for the 19S8 presidential election Dawkins 1 ,053,058 Incomplete results Lautenberg Dawkins Unresolved Counties carried by Lautenberg in 1982; Camden, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Passaic, Salem, Union Prosperity key factor for Bush As pre-election polls anticipated.

Bush led with several of the groups that went with Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Bush was leading among independents, for example, by 54-44 percent in ABC's exit polls. Bush mirrored Reagan down to the gender gap. running strongly among men but less well among women, the polls found. Economic well-being was a decisive, and divisive, factor.

In NBC News polling, voters split evenly over whether they have benefited from the Reagan administration's economic policies over the past eight years. Of those doing better, eight in 10 backed Bush: of those doing worse, eight in 10 backed Dukakis. But Bush held a narrow margin among those voters who were not I I Salem Cujnbrlnd warren Hunterdon We voted our pocketbooks got caught up in it. and it blunted all his good qualities." Sullivan added Dawkins may also have been hurt by carpetbagger charges. Although Dawkins ran ahead of Lautenberg in primarily Republican northwestern New Jersey, he lagged well behind Bush, who led his rival.

Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis by more than 2 to 1. He carried Morris County but lost in Morristown. Dover.

Rock-away Township and Victory Gardens. A former Wall Street banker. Army brigadier general. Rhodes scholar and Heisman Trophy win Dukakis didn't respond to charges quickly enough. "Dukakis was unable to overcome Vice President Bush's labeling of him as anti-environment and weak on crime." he said.

Dean Armandroff, executive director of New Jersey Victory '88. the Bush-Quayle campaign volunteer group, said his lack of foreign policy experience was "a major albatross" for Dukakis. Gov. Thomas H. Kean said the state will have a special friend in the White House.

"George Bush knows New Jersey: George Bush cares for New Jersey: George Bush understands New Jersey, and if we have problems. President George Bush is going to help New Jersey." he said, adding he doesn't plan to leave his post as governor early. "George Bush will be a president I will feel comfortable calling directly when New Jersey needs help." Both sides had volunteers working hard yesterday to try to sway voters to their candidates, calling their efforts among the largest in the state's history. Republicans were operating phone banks, expecting to call hundreds of thousands of voters during the final few davs. DaiK Record sure whether Reagan's policies; had helped them.

"This is very much an economic election. People are in fact voting their pocketbooks," said NBC poll analyst Sheldon Gawiser. "People who have benefited are much more likely to vote for Bush." ABC News polls found a similar1 result: Among those who said they', were better off than eight years' ago, Bush won, 78-21. Those" who felt worse off went for Dukakis, 87-12. Although Reagan was well regarded, voters by a 50-44 percent margin told NBC they wanted the country to change rather than continue its course.

While eight in 10 of those who favored change supported Dukakis. Bush got the re-t of them, as well as nine in 10 of those who opposed change. Those who counted experience as the most important characteristic of their choice for president' backed Bush by an overwhelming 94-6 percent in ABC News polling. He also was highly rated for being trustworthy in a crisis and as a strong leader. expected to be called to aid Dawkins but were informed that he intended to wage his campaign primarily in the media.

Assembly Speaker Charles Hardwick. R-Union. said Dawkins tried to beat Lautenberg with his own strategy of heavy media advertising, a contest in which he was sure to be outspent. Joseph "Bo" Sullivan, chairman of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and Bush's New Jersey campaign manager, said Dawkins should have run "a Tom Kean positive campaign. "I think the negative campaigning hurt Pete." Sullivan said.

"He basic fundamental values of neighborhoods, faith and family." Sen. Bill Bradley. at the 'New Jersey Dukakis headquarters at the Quality Inn in Newark, said he was disappointed because Dukakis had a good shot at "breaking that quarter-century lock" Republicans have had on the state's electorial votes. New Jersey has backed the Republican nominee in every election since 1964. when Lyndon B.

Johnson carried the state. Bradley called Bush's anti-Dukakis ads. particularly the ones showing a polluted Boston Harbor, "the major problem" Dukakis had to overcome in New Jersey. But. Bradley added.

Dukakis did not answer those ads for several weeks, until it was too late. He and other Democrats, though, said they had mixed feelings about the day because of Sen. Frank Lautenberg's win. Lautenberg said he will support Bush when the new president pushes issues such as day care, but not if he tries to "veto the Clean Water Act or put another (Robert) Bork on the Supreme Court." Richard Roper, director of Princeton University's Council for New Jersey Affairs, agreed that won West Virginia. Rhode Island and the District of Columbia and led in nine states, including New York.

Pennsylvania and Illinois. Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen had his Senate seat to go home to. He won handily as Democrats moved out smartly to renewed control in Congress. Republican Senate Leader Robert Dole conceded a new, probably stronger Democratic majority, and in an extraordinary declaration, said Bush bore some of the blame. "I must say we could have used a little help from the vice president in some of those states Florida.

We pleaded with them to go to Florida." where a close race was unfolding. Dole, assuming a Bush triumph, said it was "probably correct" that there wouldn't be a mandate to go along with it. But that wasn't the Reagan view. In a statement, he said of Bush and Quayle: "Their mandate will continue the changes that create jobs, prosperity and peace for all Americans." "This has been a long and vigorous campaign," he noted. "Governor Dukakis and Senator Bentsen represented their party with strength and tenacity.

Now we must pull together and help the vice president lead America into the 1990s. I look forward to working with George and his team on a smooth transition." Bush's campaign manager. Lee Atwater, crowed about the Southern fortress erected for the vice president. "He got a clean sweep there on Super Tuesday (in the primary campaign) and" he got a County Continued from Page A1 Morris voters chose Reagan, and Bush was only 4 percentage points behind that. Bush garnered more than 3-to-l margins over Dukakis in several communities, including Boonton Township.

Chester Township Harding. Kinnelon and Mendham Township. Dukakis took only Morristown and Victory Gardens. "Morris County has great leadership, great people and great participation." said Joseph "Bo" Sullivan, the New Jersey Bush-Quayle campaign manager. "For us to have lost Morris County would have been like Jack Kennedy losing Hudson County.

They (Bush-Quayle) could not have won without Morris." Sullivan said he believes Bush "out-ethnicked" Dukakis by visiting members of several ethnic groups when he sent his message. "He pushed all the important issues: not raising taxes, cleaning up the environment, a tough stance on crime." Sullivan said from the Bush victory party at the Livingston Holidav Inn. "These were Bush Continued from Page A1 heart and great hopes I thank all the people throughout America who have given us this great victory." He said he meant to be president of all the people, and expressed his goal for an "America that is strong and resolute in the world, strong and big-hearted at home. And when I said I wanted a kinder, gentler nation. I meant it and I mean it." Victory for.

Bush came shortly after 11 "p.m. EST in The Associated Press tabulation. Bush a pragmatic conservative who led Dukakis since August in the pre-election polls won Quayle's Indiana to get off to a running start last night, then blazed uncontested across Dixie. He won Ohio. Michigan.

New Jersey and Texas four key states which had been crucial to Dukakis' hopes for a "November surprise." Missouri put Bush over the top in the AP tally. It was a singular triumph for Bush, but ticket-splitting voters delivered a strongly Democratic majority for the incoming 101st Congress. Democrats appeared to be pad-' ding their margin in the Senate, and were marching solidly toward renewed command of the House. They appeared to be adding to their ranks of governors, as well. Dukakis, whose hopes for an upset faded as his rival piled up the precious electoral votes, won at home in Massachusetts.

He also By GARY LANGER Associated Press NEW YORK George Bush, capitalizing on the nation's prosperity, won the support yesterday of independents and some Democrats, while Michael Dukakis was backed overwhelmingly by those who said they fared poorly over the past eight years, exit polls said. Bush's experience weighed in his favor, the polls said, and his candidacy appeared to be boosted by affection for his boss. President Reagan. But Bush was nowhere near recreating the 18-point Reagan landslide of 1984. Early results indicated that a majority of the Democrats who voted for Reagan last time went home to Dukakis.

Overall, though. Bush was winning about 17 percent of the Democratic voters down from Reagan's 24 percent in 1984. but a sizable share. ABC News polling found. Dukakis, by contrast, was drawing 8 percent of Republicans.

swiated Press talks about the election yesterday vote totals mounted. "It's a fight to the finish, a cliffhanger." he said. "It reminds me of 1960," when John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon battled down to the finish.

Dukakis said before concluding a final round of TV interviews fed back to the battleground states. But as the night wore on. it looked less and less like 1960 and more like four of the five previous White House elections that ended in Republican victory. v. 7' Morris County election results by municipalities Bush Dukakis Lautenberg Dawkins Boonton 2.059 995 1.349 1.754 BoontonTwp.

1.316 420 564 1.172 Butler 1.834 838 1.091 1.499 Chatham 2.919 1.314 1.744 2.459 Chatham Twp. 3.449 1.268 1.762 2.918 Chester 415 160 225 358 Chester Twp. 1.971 571 827 1.685 Denville 4.322 1.999 2.653 3.621 Dover 2.324 1.795 2.071 1.873 East Hanover 3.058 1.201 1.796 2.714 FlorhamPark 3.171 1.295 1.872 2.559 Hanover 3.832 1,386 2.004 3.164 Harding 1.576 447 628 1.483 Jefferson 4.660 1,835 2.501 3.918 Kinnelon 2.927 884 1.314 2,451 Lincoln Park 2,619 1,069 1,756 2.034 Madison 4.108 2,800 3,096 3,377 Mendham 1,867 678 933 1.577 Mendham Twp. 1.858 545 793 1.471 Mine Hill 953 507 685 773 Montville 4.965 1.738 2.721 3.934 Morris Plains 1.865 896 1.216 1.539 Morris Twp. 6.561 3.417 4.521 5.366 Morristown 2.648 3.024 3.382 2.108 Mt.

Arlington 907 394 553 746 Mt. Olive 5.068 2.241 3.103 4 086 Mt. Lakes 1.305 629 835 1.096 Netcong 699 414 511 562 Parsippany 12.133 6.542 8.803 9.412 Passaic 2.561 1.058 1.415 2.158 Pequannock 4.423 1.683 2.294 3420 Randolph 5.792 2.645 3.720 4,587 Riverdale 685 281 412 528 Rockaway 1.606 776 1.064 1.293 RockawayTwp. 5.325 3.014 4.176 4 058 Roxbury 5 625 2.225 3.132 Victory Gardens 115 137 152 89 Washington Twp. 4 856 1.654 2.538 4 021 Wharton 1.191 774 963 985 Sen.

Lloyd Bentsen gestures as he in his hotel room in Austin. Texas. clean sweep in the general election." said the South Carolinian. Bush, who first ran for the White House a decade ago and lost in the 1980 primaries to Reagan, awaited the nation's verdict in Houston. He said "no predictions" as he voted earlier in the day, and described the election as "a referendum on a philosophy, a way of life." and then awaited returns with family members in his hotel suite.

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