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...long? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday that after the elections, the U.S. hopes to drop troop levels from 160,000 to about 138,000, with a target of 100,000 by the end of 2006. Elsewhere, NBC News' Tim Russert grilled Rep. John Murtha-the Pennsylvania Democrat and decorated Vietnam War veteran whose impassioned speech on Iraq sparked Friday's meltdown in the House-on Rumsfeld's future and whether Bush should find a new Pentagon chief...
While still attending Manatee, Cooper met Sam Bell, the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Bell encouraged the young Democrat to pursue his interest in politics. Cooper took the advice to heart, and he eventually nabbed a job as the assistant fundraising director with the Democratic National Committee...
...hexed year for Democrats. Richards, one of the party's most popular incumbents, posted a 60% approval rating virtually up to Election Day and still lost to George W. Bush, a political newcomer, a businessman and an S.O.G. (Son of George) who was no F.O.B. (Friend of Bill) -- a decisive plus in Clinton-unfriendly Texas. He didn't even have to run a single negative ad. Republican Pete Wilson of California, an incumbent whose approval rating had sunk to 19% two years ago, still managed a 55% victory over Kathleen Brown. Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, big industrial states that were...
...days later, Snowe sided with Senate Finance Committee Democrats and brought down Bush's tax package, refusing to extend capital-gains and dividend tax cuts, more than half of which would go to households with annual incomes of more than $1 million. "With three consecutive hurricanes and skyrocketing energy prices, the fiscal environment is quite different, and we have to think about what is doable," Snowe told TIME. Her resolve, which rankled Senate G.O.P. leaders and the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, inspired a literal thumbs-up from North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad as he headed to the Senate...
...biggest factor in the closely watched Virginia Governor's race last week wasn't even on the ballot. And that's why Democrats are starting to think that outgoing Virginia Governor Mark Warner may finally have figured out what it will take for their party to start winning in the South again. All sides agreed the morning after the election that what carried Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine to victory--in a state that hasn't voted for a Democrat for President since L.B.J.--was Warner's popularity. Part of it is style: Warner won narrowly in 2001 by courting...