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Though he lacks experience in public office, Green, a Baptist minister, demonstrated his political sensibilities this June, inaugurating his campaign with a suit against the State of Florida over its ballot-qualifying fees--at $10,020, the highest in the nation. Green, 39, has also emphasized his youth, in comparison with 66-year-old incumbent Bill Young, in an attempt to woo the district's new population of young professionals. He sees himself as an F.D.R. Democrat, unapologetic in his support of government programs...
Delahunt's trip to the general election has been remarkable: despite a 50-point lead in the polls, he lost the primary by 266 votes, lost a recount by 175 votes, then, according to a judge, citing errors made in faulty ballot scanners, won by 108 votes. Supporting abortion rights, Head Start and the assault-weapons ban, Delahunt hopes to win the seat of 24-year incumbent Gerry Studds--preferably, in a more conventional...
...true underdog, Kline is not only an unknown political entity, he's not even on the ballot in the first election for this seat, a special election to complete Bill Emerson's term. Adding insult to electoral injury, the state's two G.O.P. Senators have endorsed Emerson's widow. Still, this prickly individualist, who refuses to divulge his birthplace and educational history because they "are not required by the Constitution," has built a platform around Christianity, a flat tax and prayer, which he will surely need in the second (general) election...
Independent Dale Mouton was on the ballot in May and stuck through the redistricting to continue his campaign. Only 26, he is a law student at Southern Methodist University, and also considers campaign reform his top priority. A former Marine who served in the Gulf War, Mouton supports life sentences for twice-convicted child molesters and rapists. He also wants to "make prisons as uncomfortable as the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment will allow." Pledging he will not be forced to vote along party lines, Mouton says "the best way to fix the system is from within...
More than 70 people who started the 104th Congress will not be on the ballot for those same seats in the 105th. With the advantage of incumbency thus forfeited, the outcome of this year's election may depend less on who's running than...