Word: doled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JOHN THUNE Republican--South Dakota, at Large On the strength of a budget-hawk platform in which he opposed Dole's 15% tax cut until the federal deficit is eliminated, Thune won the seat vacated by Senator-elect Tim Johnson...
...BROWNBACK Republican--Kansas He outspent his opponent by almost $1 million to win Bob Dole's seat in a tight race. The 1994 House freshman now brings his "Republican Revolution" to the Senate...
...President did endorse a wide array of tax cuts designed to help families pay for education, child care and home ownership--cuts that were fully paid for within the President's budget plan. In contrast, most Americans felt that the more ambitious, across-the-board tax-cut proposals Senator Dole and the Republicans outlined during 1995 and 1996 would increase the deficit and jeopardize essential social programs...
...approach also made it possible for the President to neutralize the other key political issues the Republicans hoped to exploit: crime, welfare and immigration. By taking these issues, as well as the fiscal issues, out of play, President Clinton succeeded in taking away virtually every potentially effective issue that Dole and the Republicans could have hoped to use. One of the reasons why commentators are now busily writing stories about the inept Republican campaign is that President Clinton simply took away each and every issue the Republicans had used successfully over the past four presidential elections. Dole's weakness...
...American people were rejecting the old labels and divisions of the past in ways that many in the media and politics were slow to pick up on. This is precisely why Clinton's lead was never seriously challenged throughout the fall campaign, and why salvo after salvo from Dole fell on deaf ears...