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...uses both. As a member of the Small Business Subcommittee, he drafted a bill to help businesses that want to export goods and services, and he has financed part of his campaign with $2-a-head spaghetti dinners. Baldacci has strong support with local moderates despite being the first Democrat in this seat in more than 20 years...
From the Great Depression to the oil-price shock of 1979, Michigan more often than not voted Democrat. Though the loss of some 160,000 auto-production jobs in the early '80s gave the G.O.P. an opening--it picked up two congressional seats in 1994--Clinton beat Bush in 1992, and the Democrats are favored to hold their congressional-delegation majority this year...
...term Conyers has used his position as a member of the Judiciary Committee to burnish a reputation as a hard-nosed Democrat while cultivating moderate approaches to crime. He helped get $4 billion for crime prevention in 1994 and pushed for the assault-weapons ban. In this Democratic district, Conyers makes for a formidable incumbent...
Dingell has served 41 continuous years in the House, more than any other member. The 6 ft., 3 in. lawyer, called "Big John" and "the Grand Inquisitor," is the ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee. Dingell is basically liberal but favors aggressive foreign policy, a weaker Clean Air Act--to protect his district's automakers--and a reduction in trial lawyers' leverage in product-liability suits...
...many ways, Kruszynski is a traditional liberal: he wants to preserve Medicare and Social Security, protect the environment and support education. In others he's more like a New Democrat: he supports welfare reform and balancing the budget by fighting abuses of the system. But while the Muskegon native, campaigning in his father's 1950 Ford pickup, has several key endorsements, including one from the uaw, the Second District usually votes Republican...