Word: elected
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...Like Bush's, the Yeltsin team thought the nation's economy was improving and that the President would receive credit for it; in fact, only a small segment of the population enjoys whatever progress there has been. Like Bush, Yeltsin simply refused to believe that the voters would elect his opponent. Like Bush's, the Yeltsin campaign was in disarray as factions fought for control. And also as with Bush, there was no clearly focused Yeltsin message, just a melange of ideas--and even then, no disciplined plan for their delivery or appreciation of the need for such a plan...
...village notables had planned to organize a committee to re-elect the President. "But we didn't get around to it," said the head teacher, Nikolai Lychev. Anyway, he added, the regional Yeltsin campaign headquarters in Arkhangel'sk did not send any materials till the day before the vote. By then, campaigning was prohibited. Yeltsin won Sogra and the surrounding villages anyway. He received 538 votes; Zyuganov came in second with 378, followed by General Alexander Lebed with 262 and Vladimir Zhirinovsky a distant fourth...
...time G.O.P. senators met last week to elect a replacement for Bob Dole as majority leader, the result was a foregone conclusion. Which is exactly how Trent Lott had planned it. After Dole's surprise announcement in May that he would resign from Congress, the second-term Senator from Mississippi with made-for-TV hair needed just one day of lobbying his colleagues to be confident of victory. "I work fast," said Lott, who also talks fast, after he swamped fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran by a vote of 44 to 8. "I probably talked to 40 Senators within 24 hours...
...emerged from the throats of Martina McBride (Independence Day), Patty Loveless (You Don't Even Know Who I Am) and Trisha Yearwood (On a Bus to St. Cloud). The composer is Gretchen Peters, and her own first album, The Secret of Life (Imprint), offers 10 fresh reasons to elect her to the country songwriter's Hall of Fame...
...million, up 12% from the same cycle in 1994 (though still far short, as always, of what the Republicans have raked in, about $30 million so far). Put the phone to your ear, and listen to an excerpt of Bob Kerrey dialing for dollars. Kerrey (stern): "Yes, we'll elect a few stinkers, I suppose, but I believe that we'll bring to Washington some people who will use your hard-earned money to help endow the future of this country. And, remember, send your check care of the D.S.C.C...