Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan seemed to say to the public: "In order to a) decrease taxes, b) cut spending, c) pump up the military and d) reduce the deficit, we need to elect Republicans. Democrats just haven't done the job." Such a campaign strategy gave the voters a reason for going with the Republicans; these nationally-voiced ideals supposedly led to the mandate--and a gain of 34 seats in the House of Representatives--which the voters dropped into the President...
...public should choose who to vote based on the issues and personalities in this campaign, not the presidential one. If you vote for John Kerry, you won't know what side of the issues your vote will land on. A vote for Ray Shamie will help elect a person who tells it as he sees it and who knows all about fiscal responsibility...
Baker's departure has set in motion a campaign which is more low-key but at least as important as the battles raging at the state level this month. On November 28 the Senate will elect by secret ballot its next Majority leader--a man who will almost single-handedly control the body's legislative agenda, be its principal spokesman and act as his party's prime troubleshooter on the floor. It is almost certain that the Republican Party will maintain its dominance in the Senate--but the character of the person it chooses to guide it will have...
...Transportation and the seventh woman ever to serve on a Presidential cabinet) and many see him as perhaps the perfect compromise candidate for an ideologically divided Senate majority. What could hurt him, though, are his undistinguished Presidential ambitions; several of his opponents have warned their colleagues not to elect a Majority Leader who will spend four years promoting his own political interests...
...self-interest. In framing the question thus, Mondale has highlighted precisely the crucial issue of this campaign, and we hope that in fact he will be able to triumph on the theme of decency. American voters should once and for all repudiate Reagan's ideology of selfishness and elect Walter Mondale President...