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  Politics in Massachusetts: More Division Than Vision
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News DateWednesday, September 19, 1990 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionWith a provocative remark about blacks and then angry attacks on the news media, John R. Silber, a candidate in the Democratic primary for governor,has thrown Tuesday's race into turmoil, apparently leaving Francis X. Bellotti in the lead.

A poll published over the weekend in The Boston Globe showed Mr. Bellotti, a former Massachusetts Attorney General, leading Dr. Silber, president of Boston University, 48 percent to 37 percent. The poll, of 457 likely voters, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus five percentage points.

But with Massachusetts voters angry at conventional politicians for a prolonged budget crisis, it was unclear whether Mr. Bellotti, who is 67 years old and first ran for governor in 1964, could hold his lead over the acerbic Dr. Silber, who has depicted himself as the candidate of change.

Both candidates seemed to have damaged themselves in the past week - Mr. Bellotti with a rambling debate appearance and Dr. Silber by saying in a televised meeting that he had not campaigned in predominantly black sections of Boston because ''there is no point in my making a speech on crime control to a group of drug addicts.''

But some polls suggest Dr. Silber's remark has generated more support among white voters.
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