Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This guy's performance isn't so wonderful that he can't be taken out," Michael Goldman, a Democratic consultant, told the New York Times last week. "Luckily for him, instead of running against [U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Cambridge)] or any other serious Democrat, he ended up with the B-team. They've got no dough and no name recognition. And the reality is that you can't beat somebody with nobody...
...sure -- you would be likely to come away with a peculiar picture of the political landscape. For one thing, you might easily get the impression that all the candidates, especially the incumbents, are passionate enemies of the Washington Establishment. You might also suppose no one is a Democrat -- especially the Democrats. If there's a characteristic sound bite this year, it's the muffled tread of politicians on tiptoe...
...here's Senator Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat, boasting about how he saved a small town from the Environmental Protection Agency when it moved against a local polluter. Federal bureaucracy, Kerrey warns, "is the most formidable enemy of all sometimes." (Is this the same Bob Kerrey who not long ago proposed a federal takeover of health insurance?) And here's Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, bragging that he was "leader in the fight that stopped the BTU tax." That's shorthand for the energy tax. Readers will recall that the leader in the effort to advance it was Bill...
...omens for Democrats are not good. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, the President's job-approval rating is 40%, the lowest for any President at this point in his term in four decades. His disapproval rating is 52%, the highest of his presidency, attributable to the wear and tear of congressional fights over crime and health care, the wiggles of his foreign policy and the lingering suspicions about Whitewater. The upshot may be this: more of those questioned say they would vote for a Republican (40%) over a Democrat (38%) in their congressional district...
Though every congressional contest has its own issues, the problems of the Democrat in Chief help explain why candidates lower down find themselves breathing hard to keep ahead in races that should be easy wins, including Kerrey's in Nebraska and Senator Ted Kennedy's in Massachusetts. Moreover, departing Democrats far outnumber Republicans among the unusually large number of lawmakers who are retiring this year. Given the advantages in campaign money that incumbents enjoy, each retirement creates an opportunity for the other side to romp through a more level playing field. With victory a real possibility in more districts, Republicans...