Word: caucus
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Although Gephardt, 46, is nearly invisible in the polls, he hopes to get off to a strong start in the Iowa caucuses. For a year he has been working at an election-year pace, taking only Sundays off. He has visited Iowa so often -- 27 times since 1985 -- that he has been nicknamed "Iowa's seventh Congressman" (the state has six). The boyish-looking lawyer's penchant for work is well known: after arriving in Washington in 1977, he quickly rose through Congress to become chairman of the House Democratic Caucus in 1984. He was the co-sponsor with...
Women face more obstacles than men in running for office because until recently they have not been fully accepted into the political fray, three Republican politicians and one Democrat said in a forum cosponsored by the Institute of Politics and the K-School Women's Caucus...
Donovan, who has helped select the IOP Fellows in addition to being responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Fellows program, said she want to explore different career opportunities during her yearlong leave of absence. She said she will organize a San Francisco conference for the International Caucus of Women Political Leaders...
...official Washington, conservative admirers have rallied to his cause. North says he has received more than 10,000 letters of support from across the country, and some $60,000 has been donated to the Oliver North Legal Assistance Fund, established by North's friends in the Marines. The Conservative Caucus, a right-wing lobbying group, is also using North's name as a hook to solicit funds for the contras. The confusingly named Oliver North Defense Committee has raised $40,000 that will be used to lobby Congress for more aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
While still in Iowa, whose caucus next February will be the first official vote for presidential nominees, Dukakis spoke like a candidate. He stressed national themes which underlie the mid-western state's current economic woes...