Word: democratic
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...Democratic Leadership Council -- a centrist group that President Clinton helped start while a governor, then used as a springboard to the presidency -- today warned that many American voters see him as a big-government liberal and not the "New Democrat" he campaigned as in 1992. The evidence? Clinton's own pollster, Stan Greenberg, ran a national poll and focus-group interviews for the DLC right after the midterm elections. The results: More than half of the growing bloc of independent voters --- who now make up 30 percent of the electorate -- clearly repudiated the Democrats and Clinton's term...
...Most students just end up working for their own individual congressmen," said Genaitis. "Most don't choose Republican or Democrat...
Gubernatorial races in Maryland and Alaska that had been hung up on absentee ballot counts arelikely Democratic victories. In Maryland, where the GOP is outnumbered two-to-one, Democrat Parris Glendening apparently beat Republican Ellen Sauerbrey by 5,405 votes with all but about 500 overseas votes tallied. (His lieutenant governor will be Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the late Robert Kennedy's oldest daughter.) In Alaska, Democrat Tony Knowles led Republican Jim Campbell by just 77 votes -- an edge so thin state officials may demand a recount. But 1994's Squeaker of the Year may go to a Connecticut House race...
...Paul Simon, a 1988 presidential contender and Illinois? highest-ranking Democrat, said today he would not seek re-election in 1996. Friends of the bespectacled, bowtied senator, elected in 1984 after serving 10 years in the House, said only that the 65-year-old wasn?t enthusiastic about beginning fundraising now for the next election. ?I have an obligation to leave the Senate while I am still eager to serve, not after I tire,? Simon told reporters.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
Even though most oddsmakers have called California's Senate race in favor of Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has temporarily halted the count of 500,000 absentee ballots that theoretically could throw the race to GOP challenger Michael Huffington. Judge Coleman Swart said he ordered the pause to try to corroborate a Republican radio talk show host's allegations that undocumented aliens and minors had sent in fraudulent ballots. Meanwhile in Maryland, the gubernatorial contest between Democrat Parris Glendening and Republican Ellen Sauerbrey is down to a snail's-pace absentee ballot count...