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Mr. Dawkins aimed his campaign not at winning the nomination but at attracting blacks to the GOP. A speech to the convention helped earn him 325 votes.
“Once you’re not the leader, you’ve lost the momentum, and you have to show movement in the psychology of these conventions,” Mr. Coleman said.
Mr. Chichester, who was expected to trail on the the first round even by his own staff, came out with a 10-vote lead.
“With the Dawkins vote, a lot of people were going to any safe port in a storm and see how it shook out,” said Dennis Peterson, Mr. Chichester’s campaign manager.
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