Word: democrats
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Danner made a bold entrance into Congress by unseating 16-year incumbent Tom Coleman in 1992. Two years later, she claimed two-thirds of the vote during the year of Republican political upheaval. A moderate to conservative Democrat, she voted against the ban on assault weapons, opposed lifting the ban on gays in the military, sponsored legislation for term limits and drafted the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which passed both houses this summer...
...grabs this year, but Bamberger is the underdog in this solidly Republican district. With years of serving on county boards and task forces and having taught political science to college students for 26 years, she won a six-way primary with 53% of the vote. A longtime Democrat, she staunchly supports labor unions and workers' interests. But even a Website may not bring enough of the right recognition for a political upset...
...seat. Now wanting a third Senate term, he walked 857 miles this year. Also known for his "workdays in Montana," Baucus has been (for a day at a time) a butcher, a road worker and a grocery bagger. In his own job in Washington, where he is the ranking Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, he waves no hard-line ideological flags...
Burr couldn't steal the Fifth from Democrat Stephen Neal in 1992, but won it on Neal's 1994 retirement. How firm his hold now is--it was a Democratic district for 20 years before Burr arrived--may depend on local distaste for President Clinton's 1993 75-cents-a-pack cigarette-tax proposal. Burr's defense of the embattled tobacco industry is a winner here in R.J. Reynolds' backyard...
With the resignation of Democrat Charlie Rose, the G.O.P. senses a chance to grab another Southern seat, and Caster has found a good issue: tobacco. Opponent Mike McIntyre says he's on the side of tobacco, but Caster counters with the specter of Clinton's threats to tax the industry further...