Word: democratically
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MISSOURI John Danforth, a Senate moderate, should crush Democrat Jay Nixon...
MINNESOTA. Democrat Hubert Humphrey III cried out to voters to stop comparing him with his beloved late father and start weighing him against his opponent, Senator Dave Durenberger. They have, and it may be helping. "Skip" Humphrey, the state's attorney general, has been slinging dirt at Durenberger on character issues. But Durenberger's senatorial bearing and flawless environmental record have given him a lead. If Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer- Labor Party is of a mind to, it could still rescue Humphrey...
MISSISSIPPI. Republican Trent Lott has been the heir presumptive to John Stennis' seat ever since the venerable Democrat lost a leg to cancer in 1984. The only question was when. Now that Stennis has retired, there are new questions. Democratic Congressman Wayne Dowdy is backed by the popular Stennis. But Dowdy, who enjoys strong support from blacks (one-third of the voting population), must cut into the white vote...
WISCONSIN. Democrat William Proxmire used to pay the $145 filing fee, and that constituted his total campaign expenditure. This year it cost supermarket magnate Herbert Kohl $3 million of his own money just to succeed the retiring Proxmire as the Democratic nominee. Kohl, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks . basketball team, makes a virtue of his wealth: "a Senator just for you." He will face the only woman nominated for a Senate seat this year, Susan Engeleiter, a moderate who is Republican leader of the state senate...
...MEXICO New Mexico Jeff Bingaman, a first-term Democrat, should win handily...