Word: democratic
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...locales. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Dan Goodgame found himself climbing up the sideboards of mud-spattered beet trucks while covering the campaign of Idaho Republican Steve Symms, who won a second Senate term. Bonnie Angelo, who heads the New York bureau, searched a small town in Maryland with Democrat Barbara Mikulski, who would later win her Senate bid, as she tried to find the hall where she was supposed to speak. In Sheyenne, N. Dak. (pop. 307), Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White found supporters of successful Senatorial Aspirant Kent Conrad so enthusiastic about having a representative of the national media...
Forget accentuating the positive; here's how to negate the negative. In an election dominated by negative advertising, the most effective counterattack came in South Dakota, where Democrat Tom Daschle turned Republican Senator James Abdnor's ads against him. When we last tuned in, Abdnor was running a commercial linking Daschle to Actress Jane Fonda, who, the ad incorrectly claimed, eschewed red meat -- not a trifling charge in a state where beef is a leading farm product. During the three weeks that the ad aired, Abdnor made up about ten points in the polls. Then Daschle decided to attack...
...John Connally Award for most dollars per vote in a losing cause. In the race for the Senate in Vermont, former Governor Richard Snelling, a Republican, shelled out $20.24 a vote, but he was defeated nearly 2 to 1 by incumbent Democrat Patrick Leahy. Leahy spent only $10.77 a vote, based on the latest reports. Democratic Senate candidates in four states upset Republicans who spent more than twice as much...
Playing opposite Bill Bradley in the congressional front court. Unlike Bradley, newly elected Congressman Tom McMillen of Maryland did not, as a professional basketball player, move well without the ball. Like the New Jersey Senator, however, he is a neoliberal Democrat, a Rhodes scholar and a victor in his first race for office. At 6 ft. 11 in., he is 6 in. taller than Bradley and a full 2 ft. taller than his Maryland colleague, Senator-elect Barbara Mikulski (a savvy point guard if there ever...
Michael Dukakis. "The future's so bright I gotta wear my shades," said the Massachusetts Democrat after being re-elected Governor with 69% of the vote. His innovative initiatives and strong stance against nuclear power would make him a contender in the New Hampshire primary, especially if Cuomo falters...