Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last presidential election: Clinton (D): 44% Bush (R): 36% Perot...
Though the Fifth has been called the least Democratic district in Massachusetts--it voted for George Bush in 1988, against favorite son Michael Dukakis--its voters re-elected Meehan in 1994 with 70% of the vote. He has made the fight against smoking his congressional cause celebre and speaks harshly against the tobacco industry. Meehan believes in a four-term limit, and with no G.O.P. opponent, he is guaranteed at least one more...
Last presidential election: Clinton (D): 39% Bush (R): 30% Perot...
From the Great Depression to the oil-price shock of 1979, Michigan more often than not voted Democrat. Though the loss of some 160,000 auto-production jobs in the early '80s gave the G.O.P. an opening--it picked up two congressional seats in 1994--Clinton beat Bush in 1992, and the Democrats are favored to hold their congressional-delegation majority this year...
Unemployment: 3.4% (2.2% below U.S. average, March 1996) Last presidential election: Clinton (D): 43% Bush (R): 32% Perot...