Word: congressman
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...most trouble in this fall's elections: a) liberals; b) Democrats; or c) incumbents? The answer: any combination of the three, according to pundits and poll watchers trying to explain today's primary upset of 16-year Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar. In one of the biggest electoral turnabouts in the state's history, the 43-year-old Okie from Muskogee became the third House member to lose a primary this year. Voters fed up with the Clinton-like liberal handed 51 percent of the ballot to a 71-year-old retired school principal instead. BTW: How bad is it? Senate...
...Americans tell pollsters they are are no longer sure they want the President to win. That the issue, once a sure plus for Democrats, is now a more complicated blessing is evident in Pennsylania, where Democratic Senator Harris Wofford is in a tricky race against Rick Santorum, a Republican Congressman who promises to protect voters from government interference in their health-care decisions. It was Wofford's surprise victory three years ago over Dick Thornburgh, after a campaign that made health-care reform an issue, that first alerted politicians to its potential. But while Wofford is far ahead of Santorum...
...Democratic candidates already find themselves moving cautiously rightward this year. Two years ago, when Clinton handily took California from George Bush, Dianne Feinstein won her Senate race in a landslide. This year she holds just a 6-point lead over Michael Huffington, a one-term Republican Congressman. The ultrawealthy heir to a family fortune made in natural gas, Huffington has spent $10 million of his own money on the campaign and expects to spend that much again by Election Day, most of it on TV commercials. To combat those, Feinstein's ads concentrate strongly on her anticrime measures...
Charged with sexual assault against a 16-year-old girl in his 1992 campaign, as well as obstruction of justice, Congressman Mel Reynolds was indicted in his home state of Illinois. State and federal investigators have also been examining the freshman Democrat's failure to register a nonprofit foundation and disclose the existence of campaign accounts, one of which held...
...group that opposes increasing cigarette taxes to fund health care reform burned Hillary Rodham Clinton in effigy Saturday -- as a Kentucky congressman and a gubernatorial candidate looked on. At a rally of about 100 people in Owensboro, Ky., Stan Arachikavitz, president of the state's Association of Tobacco Supporters, doused the dangling effigy with gasoline, then chanted "Burn, baby, burn!" as two women set it ablaze. Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith, who moments before had delivered fiery speeches themselves, distanced themselves from the stunt's more violent implications: "I certainly wouldn't have done...