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Even so, every potential candidate is rehearsing an answer to the adultery question. "If we could get a caucus of all the candidates to agree to answer, 'None of your damn business,' that would change the world," says a Democratic consultant. "But that won't happen, because the clean guys will want to make the bad guys squirm." And in the G.O.P. it's not just the press they worry about, it's some fellow Republicans, especially those on the Christian right. The Rev. Lou Sheldon, who heads the Traditional Values Coalition, has said he will ask every candidate whether...
...latest label was "young," affixed by Republicans coming out of the Senate Cineplex. It was the first successful talking point to emerge from the caucus in days: simple, factually unassailable and subliminally suggestive of the heart of the President's darkness. How could he have taken such advantage, been such a sexual predator...
Last night, at a caucus of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee, Joseph N. Sanberg '01, Eugene Krupitsky '02 and Lesley W. Mitchell '02 were elected as delegates to a statewide Democratic party convention this...
...minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held off the more zealous members of their parties--the ones who wanted to torch the negotiations and break open the gun closets. Late Thursday, Lott called Daschle's cell phone in the middle of a closed-door Democratic caucus to tell him there would be no deal. The rules for going forward would be Republican rules, including one Democrats had strongly resisted, which left open the possibility that videotaped testimony might be released to the public. Despite the impasse, said Lott, he would honor concessions he'd made...
...Byrd has twice nominated him to continue as the party's leader. Dodd, now one of Daschle's close confidants, marvels at his old rival's political skills. "I would have lost it long ago," he says, noting the patience Daschle displays in dealing with his verbose colleagues. "The caucus made a wise decision by its margin of one vote...