Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national campaign headquarters of both parties have been pouring money and effort into some of the state's close congressional races, like the San Francisco-area battle between Republican incumbent Frank Riggs, 46, a former sheriff's deputy, and Democrat Michela Alioto, 28, a granddaughter of former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. In recent years the district has been a political toggle switch, going Republican in 1990 with Riggs, who was voted out in '92 and voted back...
...Democrats may have little fear of a Dole upset win, but they are worried that Republicans in tight House races will finally start campaigning on the line that they should be sent to Washington as a check on Clinton in his second term. Voters were not exactly wild about the first two years of the Clinton Administration, when he got a Democratic Congress and they got a very big health-care proposal but not the tax cut or welfare reform he had promised. Now pollsters for both parties are finding a significant quirk when people are asked, all other things...
...political power. It is important to remember that two short years ago, Clinton was so unpopular that Congressional candidates were begging the White House to not have the president come anywhere near their state. Now Clinton is leading in polls in states like Arizona, which last voted for a Democrat named Harry S Truman...
...friend Kemp was "concerned too much about being 'nice' and not enough about winning." Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, complained that "if you came down from Mars and saw this debate, you might think that Al Gore was a moderate Republican...and Jack Kemp was the Democrat." Even Dole, in an interview with ABC's Ted Koppel, cracked that Kemp and Gore got along so famously that "it looked like a fraternity picnic there for a while...
...Democrats like Bentsen have another problem. Special elections, and particularly one in the Christmas season of a year when many voters are disconnected from the campaign, usually favor the superior organizational skills of Republicans. "We'll have to hire Greyhound buses to get people to the polls," sighs Democrat Tony Proffitt, a Texas political operative...