Word: coattailed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, as a deranged Londoner in David Cronenberg's Spider and as three generations of Hungarian Jews in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine--won him kudos, but the films fizzled at the box office. His two commercial successes could be considered coattail rides: as Hannibal Lecter's apprentice madman in Red Dragon and as Jennifer Lopez's prince charming in Maid in Manhattan. Casual moviegoers may recall that his name has an exotic pronunciation, then wonder, What ever happened to Rafe Fines...
...need to pick up only six seats to take back the House, and history is on their side: the party of the President--even a popular one like George W. Bush--typically loses House seats during a midterm election. Bush's high poll numbers have so far created "no coattail effect," admits Virginia Representative Tom Davis, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee. Democrats are looking to draw blood on domestic issues, where they think Bush is vulnerable. Last week, House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt pounced on a White House proposal to raise interest rates that college students...
...speech, 50 swing voters from the Denver area were asked whether they'd vote for a Republican or Democratic congressmen in the next election. They were asked the same question afterwards and the percentages picking Democrat, Republican or undecided didn't change. "He doesn't have a lot of coattail," concludes a senior House Democratic aide. "But we've got to be delicate because the president is still wrapped in the flag." In the two dozen hotly contested House races that'll determine whether Democrats succeed, other polls show the swing voters would still carve Bush's face on Mount...