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While the Democratic front-runner, state Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill), focuses on his family background and his candidacy, Barrett makes pointed jabs at Roosevelt. Former state Sen. George Bachrach takes on both of his Democratic opponents, distancing himself from their similar centrist beliefs...
...Republicans who get too close to the Christian right risk scaring off centrist voters. In Texas the state Democratic committee is carefully targeting House races in which it thinks it would be advantageous for its candidates to stress their support for abortion rights. One of them is for the seat held by Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, whose opponent, Steve Stockman, is heavily supported by the religious right...
...moderates lobbed eleventh-hour health-care bills onto the floor of Congress, undermining the proposal that has the support of President Clinton. Even as the President sent members of his Cabinet to Capitol Hill to shore up support for Senate majority leader George Mitchell's bill, centrist Senators announced plans to introduce a stripped-down, bipartisan bill that would not increase taxes or require that employers pay for workers' insurance. Just yesterday a group of House members introduced an even milder bill that would leave 26 million people uninsured. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says few players in Washington have...
Republicans are looking towards strong gains in the 1994 and 1996 elections. Perhaps they're only hyping themselves, but the public should nonetheless be on guard for a rash of centrist leanings meant only to garner votes...
...they become more schooled in the art of give and take, conservative Christians have been willing to support more centrist candidates and positions. At its state convention two years ago, the California G.O.P. tore itself apart over whether to adopt a strict antiabortion plank. The conservatives won, but in the November election G.O.P. candidates were mowed down by the voters. This year, to avoid hobbling Governor Pete Wilson in his race against Democrat Kathleen Brown, Christians agreed to a softer abortion platform. Religious conservatives are looking for centrists to meet them halfway by supporting candidates like North and Quist, even...