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...this summer's Republican National Convention, Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, attacked the Democrat-favoring teachers unions for impeding education reform. In retaliation, the Democrats harped on Republican attempts to slash funding for education. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D.-Mass.) went so far as to label Dole's acceptance address as "the first anti-teacher, anti-education speech ever delivered by a presidential nominee of either major party...
...Saturday, a group including Harvard undergraduates will door-drop voter guides comparing the environmental records of Republican U.S. representative Peter Blute and his challenger in the Massachusetts third congressional district, Democrat Jim McGovern...
...Senate seemed like a good place to start. Carol Moseley-Braun is the only black senator in the United States. She is a Democrat from Illinois and has been in the Senate since January 1993. The black population in America is 12.6 percent of all Americans. The House is a much more representative body than the Senate, with over 25 black members; but the obvious reason for this (which also explains why the Senate is a better gauge of the country's sentiment), is that it takes an entire state to elect a senator and only a district to elect...
...became chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee when the Republicans took over Congress, giving him bragging rights to this year's landmark telecommunications law and helping him raise as much as $5 million for his re-election bid. And he is running in a state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 49% to 41%. South Dakota hasn't given its three electoral votes to a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson...
...lightweight, a rap that is by now well known to the voters back home. And critics in South Dakota say their senior Senator, after 18 years of cozying up to lobbyists, has "gone Washington." Six years ago, he scraped by with a 19,000-vote victory against an underfunded Democrat...