Word: elected
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Bush is likely to be unemployed after January 20, when President-elect Bill Clinton will take the oath of office. Bush lost to Clinton in an Electoral College landslide last Tuesday...
...When the Republican Party can elect women, it will once again be a party to reckon with," Pieper said...
...group is waiting to elect its officers until the members have a chance "to get to know each other," according to the introductory letter...
...were a subversive group of nine-year-olds. Our class was the only one to vote for John Anderson in the school-wide mock election--everyone else voted for Carter. In February, when we heard that the President was shot, one girl said what we were all sort of thinking: "I hope he dies and they elect a Democrat." Our teacher was horrified and spent the rest of the day telling us that the Communists in Russia were just waiting to take advantage of a leaderless America. It was the first time I heard about John F. Kennedy...
Last Tuesday even the most radically liberal of my friends were giddy with delight. Clinton may well represent neo-liberalism, a swing to the right. Who cares? We'll quibble over his policies later. Americans actually elected a Democrat! Even with the polls of the previous weeks it was hard to believe that a Democratic president could actually be elected. We Red Sox fans have been close before. All the distinguished commentary in the world didn't match up to watching George Bush concede and hearing the phrase "president-elect Bill Clinton." Some of my friends got drunk, others danced...