Word: democratizing
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Roosevelt, meanwhile, spoke Saturday at a rally sponsored by the Col- lege Democrats of America at Boston's Essex Grill, where more than 125 college students gathered to hear the candidate discuss what it means to be a Democrat--the same topic he addressed at the Kennedy School of Government last month...
...House, where Republicans haven't been a majority since the Eisenhower days -- and have been powerless in all that time to so much as bring a bill to the floor without begging for Democratic help -- the prospects are a little less bright. Just a few weeks ago, Gingrich could seriously entertain dreams of G.O.P. gains of 40 seats, enough to make his party the majority and him the next Speaker. Now, though the Republicans can still be expected to score at least 25 seats, their chances for more are clouded by a Democratic rebound made evident by the latest TIME/CNN...
...still a toss-up between the GOP'sOliver Northand incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb.ROBB 37 (Fairfax Journal) 38 (VCU)NORTH 36 36BARRETT: "North has only 35 to 37 percent hard-core support, that support appears to be impregnable. They're just not paying attention to the salvos being fired at him." The other irony: the GOP lured independent Marshall Coleman into the race to stop the loose-cannon North, but Coleman appears to be siphoning more votes off Robb...
...point deficit in the polls over the last month. But don't accuse Perot of party bias. He's expected Saturday to endorse Independent New York gubernatorial candidate B. Thomas Golisano -- further damaging the lagging candidacy of theGOP's George Pataki. A poll published today has Democrat Gov. Mario Cuomo ahead of GOP candidate George Pataki by 7 points -- about the amount of Golisano's total support. Two weeks back, Cuomo was 15 points behind Pataki. One of the factors in the turnaround is Golisano, who is siphoning away Pataki's conservative base. "A vote for Golisano is a vote...
Former presidential candidate and permanent gadfly H. Ross Perot has endorsed Texas democratic Gov. Ann Richards in herfight against George W. Bush. Perot called the Democrat "one of the greatest governors in the history of Texas" and then slugged the son of the ex-President -- a Dallas oilman and managing general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. "Running Texas as governor is big business. It is not an athletic event," he said. Richards was all smiles. "I'm really pleased to be endorsed by someone who is the personification of change in government," she said.The endorsement could have...