Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Closer to home, in Central Square, the verdict on the elections was also mixed. "I think a lot of Dems are turning out for Cellucci," Christine Logan said. "He comes across a lot more working class than Harshbarger, plus the economy's strong and he's Democrat...
Although he calls himself a progressive Democrat, many of his positions are centrist...
...hard to get too worried about [thevote]," said campaign coordinator Jon A.Lenicheck. "With so many contested races thisyear, our idea is to get the word out there tovote Democrat...
...that he's a candidate for Governor of Minnesota, Ventura, 47, has hung up his boa and no longer espouses cheating. But to the state's Democrats and Republicans, the former wrestler, actor and radio shock jock is still playing the bad guy. Most observers had considered Ventura's shoestring Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock...
...Schier, chair of the political-science department at Carleton College, puts Ventura in the emerging populist tradition of Minnesota, a state that in 1992 gave 24% of its vote to Reform Party founder Ross Perot and in this decade has elected populists of both the left and the right--Democrat Paul Wellstone and Republican Rod Grams--to the U.S. Senate. Ventura's campaign slogan--"Retaliate in '98"--fits the tradition...