Word: blocs
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Ostling reports that President Clinton's decision to travel to Newark to meet the Pope is a reminder that the Catholic vote will be vital to Clinton's reelection chances: "The Democrats have lost one big bloc in F.D.R.'s old New Deal coalition, white Southerners (mostly Protestant but also those who are Catholic), and cannot afford to lose the other big bloc of ethnic Catholics. Hispanics and blacks are strongly Democratic, whether Catholic or not, and so are Jews, but it's impossible to win without solid support from the 60 million American Catholics. F.D.R. floated to victory with...
PUCC would win a majority of the council's seats it all of its candidates earned election to the council. Its leaders said they're hoping to land more than 30 members on the council, which would give it a solid voting bloc to pursue its agenda...
...still over a year away from the presidential election, but it appears that most campaigns are already in full swing. The Republican contenders have been jockeying for position within their party for some time now, trying to curry favor with the influential bloc of conservative voters that plays so key a role in the primary. On the Democratic side, President Clinton has started to make informal campaign stops and has stepped up his fundraising efforts...
...have vilified him as "the Manchurian Candidate." The former POW voices an argument that is not widely understood in the U.S.: Vietnam today is valuable as a strategic counterbalance to China. Hanoi has just joined as a fully paid-up member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a bloc of such countries as Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines that banded together in 1967 under the threat of Vietnam's conflagration and China-aided communist insurgencies. These neighbors, edgy of late about China's new military strength, see Vietnam as a keystone to regional stability. The U.S., while not wishing...
...many do they speak for? Among the roughly 600,000 Cuban Americans in the Miami area, this is a time of psychological flux. Despite the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the end of Moscow's subsidies, Castro has hung on to power. So, asks Menoyo, what have the exiles gained from 35 years of confrontation? "Imagine a person who diets for that long without losing a pound,'' he says. "Anyone with common sense would change diets...