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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...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The question of who will represent the 12th Congressional District...will be decided by middle-class people, like myself, who know that their parents depend on Medicare and Social Security to live out their retirement in dignity...
...demonstrate that it's possible to make it out of poverty. But whether this will help in a district that hasn't voted for a Republican since Lincoln--and where the incumbent wields such clout, according to the Washington Times, that businesses are afraid to support Hayle--will depend on getting her fellow Caribbeans and pro-life Catholics to the polls...
...Paso an immigration tripwire, the 16th District couldn't ask for a better candidate than Reyes, whose controversial program to stop illegal aliens made him a symbol of national self-determination. And though he doesn't want to be a one-issue candidate, the election outcome will likely depend on voters' opinions of his tough stand on the Rio Grande...
More than 70 people who started the 104th Congress will not be on the ballot for those same seats in the 105th. With the advantage of incumbency thus forfeited, the outcome of this year's election may depend less on who's running than...