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...Cambridge force may likely have escaped the worst of the backlash because of the positive relationship that Anderson has been able to develop with the community over the past year...
...party to back the right to an abortion. Ann Stone, who leads Republicans for Choice, thinks Bush must again become pro-choice -- a position Bush himself once held -- to prevent disgruntled moderate voters from casting their lot with the pro- choice Perot. Stone also fears an anti-Republican backlash should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1974 decision that guaranteed abortion rights...
...Backlash by Susan Faludi...
...Angeles riots have made the problems of the cities an issue to be reckoned with in this year's election campaigns. But the 1992 presidential election will also be the first in which suburbanites are a majority of the voters -- up from just 36% in 1968, when the white backlash against the ghetto riots of that era helped elect Richard Nixon. What Nixon understood then, and what a great deal of state and federal policy has reflected since then, is that the suburbs control the nation's political destiny. Voters there will punish any candidate who would have them transfer...
Another candidate who has excited interest among women is Carol Moseley Braun, who upset incumbent Al Dixon in the Illinois Democratic Senate primary in March. Feminists seized on her triumph over Dixon, who voted for Thomas' confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, as evidence that the Hill-Thomas backlash would propel women to power. "That was an improbable victory," says veteran feminist Betty Friedan, "so now it seems like an augury of things to come." But was it? Braun, a strong supporter of abortion rights, owed her victory less to women's anger than to the arrogance and myopia...