Word: backlashers
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...says he expects a "heavy backlash" afterthe disappointment of the Clinton administration'sJuly announcement...
Unfortunately for several new Members of Congress, the House Democratic leadership showed little interest in protecting its party's weaker links. Instead of letting the more entrenched incumbents absorb the budget backlash, House leaders put the onus on fledgling representatives who were already in trouble...
...says he expects a "heavy backlash" afterthe disappointment of the Clinton administration'sJuly announcement...
...conspiratorial image, Reed decided on the motif of a coming-out party. In a bow to political ecumenism, he persuaded David Wilhelm, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to be the token liberal among dozens of conservative speakers. The movement remains overwhelmingly white and has roots in the backlash against the civil rights revolution; so Reed commissioned a national poll of minority churchgoers, hoping to find some unlikely constituency among their ranks. Sure enough, this week he will announce figures showing that on some social issues, devout blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans sympathize with religious-right views...
...Gordon, president of B.G. Mudd, a trading company in Gallup, New Mexico, thinks the key to Indian fever is neither politicized rockers nor savvy savers. "People drifted West, all the way to Los Angeles, but they found it was too kooky," he says. "What we have now is the backlash, people who want stability." After stability, he adds wryly, comes Ralph Lauren. "Now it's a look. The Southwest is here to stay...