Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will spend the next few months doing what political animals do by nature when struck, which is lick their wounds and bare their fangs at one another. The Republicans will worry, and they should. Women, the new swing vote, more or less deserted them. The old swing vote, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, who are culturally conservative but not so crazy about Big Business, drifted away after Pat Buchanan faded. In polls conducted only days before the election, practically every gender, racial and age group favored Clinton except for households with incomes over $75,000. The latter group constitutes about...
Though he has run under various parties' banners over the years, Newkirk considers himself a friend of the blue-collar worker. He favors a flat tax and opposes gun control, but his burning issue is freeing up Oregon land for economic development...
...distinguished freshman-year record may not be enough to get English re-elected. In a blue-collar district that is predictably neither Democratic nor Republican, he fights resistance from the Democratic National Committee and the AFL-CIO for his support of the Contract with America and the G.O.P. plan to reform Medicare. He needs to persuade voters that his loyalty to them outweighs his devotion to a Republican fiscal agenda...
...industry in the '80s, Klink, a former news anchor, is a staunch supporter of labor--which made him an equally die-hard opponent of NAFTA--and a proponent of legislation prohibiting employers from permanently replacing workers who strike because of wages, benefits or working conditions. So far, his blue-collar constituents have returned the favors...
Moran is an energetic liberal who, having survived the Republican revolution of 1994, should be able to secure a fourth term this year. His constituency is largely white-collar, service-industry and federal workers, so his status as ranking member of the Civil Service Subcommittee of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee is an advantage...