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...unusual crop of candidates is aiming for Capitol Hill...
...hearings, a spectacle that caused millions of female Americans to look angrily toward Washington -- and dozens of them to head there as part of the powerful movement known as the Year of the Women. Whatever the reason, this is the year of outsider candidates who think they can take Capitol Hill by storm. Many of them may succeed...
...Panther in Chicago to a Wyoming ophthalmologist who promises to return to private life as soon as Congress passes health-care legislation. And many incumbents, who normally trot confidently to re- election, are running scared in the face of this unexpected assault. At least 150 newcomers are expected on Capitol Hill next year. That number includes 85 seats in the House and nine in the Senate that are guaranteed to have new occupants because the incumbents have retired or have been defeated in the primary campaigns...
...have measured the Oval Office drapes yet, but his own office in Little Rock, Arkansas, is all but spoken for. Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker, who would become Governor if Clinton is elected, had already $ polished off his 1993 state budget and received visiting agency heads at the state capitol last week. Says Tucker, sounding like many veteran Washington Democrats: "It would be foolish to not be prepared...
...ruling party always energizes politics and boosts stories to the front page or the opening of the newscast. Says a Washington Post reporter: "God, I hope Bush doesn't get re-elected. It'll be so boring: no fresh ideas, the same old people running the show and more Capitol Hill gridlock. A Clinton Administration would be a much better story." In all likelihood, four years from now the same reporters will turn on Clinton with the same jaded ferocity...