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Jacobs is a Medicare and Social Security booster, hot-button issues for the district's retirees. But he's Republican in a strongly Democratic district. Pledges to make Washington more efficient by downsizing and eliminating unneeded agencies may help. But Jacobs, an avid golfer, may need a hole-in-one to take this race from popular incumbent Peter Deutsch...
...unopposed. He succeeded his father in the seat in 1982, and works with Senator Robert Byrd to help get federal money to the state, including $1 million for the West Virginia High Technology Center Foundation and a new fbi fingerprinting center. A "Buy American" legislator, Mollohan is an energetic booster of local industry who, in theory, can't lose...
...weans reporters from political insiders and forces them to talk to ordinary people, it's an incredibly healthy development," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. "But you can push it too far and become a player instead of a chronicler of the news." A player--or even a booster: the Miami Herald has been criticized, for instance, for running more of what Jim Mullin, editor of the New Times, a Miami weekly, calls "upbeat coverage of the joys of life in Miami...
...perfect weekend for the Harvard team was a much-needed morale booster after a disappointing 2-6 start...
...said, 'Give that man a machete! I want him on my side.'" But sometimes candidates wonder whose interests come first with Morris. Roemer's campaign against the scandal-plagued Edwards was based on Roemer's pledge to reject all PAC money and large contributions. Morris was a big booster of the plan--until he wanted to put TV spots on the air and Roemer lacked the money to pay for them. "Dick wanted me to break my word," says Roemer. "I wouldn...