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He is on record as supporting it more for electoral reform than anything. Though, by most counts he has gotten more liberal since 1980...

He didn't actually court it. By virtue of being a Democrat he had it anyway. Though, to hear it right, some members of his campaign did smear the other guy, which could not have hurt.