Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshmen rode in on Roosevelt's coattails, and in 1948, 75 Dems latched on to Truman's. But today, the powers of incumbency are too great; direct mailing and casework are simply too effective. In addition, ticket-splitting is increasingly in vogue among voters, and a Presidential ballot does not affect the Congressional one to the impressive degree that it once...
...reconfigure districts, packing large numbers of Republicans into only a few C.D.s, and somewhat diminishing the potential impact of a Republican electorate. California's Democratically-controlled state legislature is notorious for its practice of altering the geography of particular districts when it thinks Republicans are growing too strong. A ballot proposal now seeks to put the gerrymandering process into the hands of a bipartisan, independent commission...
There he goes again. Six years after winning passage of California's tax-slashing Proposition 13, Howard Jarvis is on another antitax crusade. He is canvassing the state to win support for Proposition 36, the most controversial initiative on the California ballot this November. The measure is designed to plug the loopholes that local governments have used to maintain revenues since Proposition 13 cut property taxes by 51% in 1978. "If you liked 13," says Jarvis, "then vote...
Another factor working in Lugar's favor is the structure of the selection system. The Majority Leader must be elected by a majority of his Republican colleagues; if no one triumphs on a first ballot, the last-place finisher drops out, and his votes are redistributed among the remaining contenders. In the view of most Congress-watchers, Lugar is everyone's second-choice...
...Pete V. Domenici (R-New Mex.) will likely be the first to drop out of the race if voting goes to a second ballot. The Chairman of the influential Budget Committee and a 12-year Senate veteran, Domenici is known as a staunch budget-cutter and a capable, though profoundly unexciting, legislator. He's been keeping very quiet about his candidacy for Howard Baker's post--and not too many people are talking about him either...