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Abortion likely cost the Democrats Minnesota, and thus the Senate. Former Vice President Walter Mondale accused Senator-Elect Norm Coleman of being an “Arbitrary Pro-Lifer.” Coleman then invited Mondale to join him in supporting a ban on partial birth abortions and a requirement for parental notification in cases of child pregnancy (legislation that the vast majority of Minnesotans support). Mondale stumbled for an answer, likely afraid to move from the rigid ideological position dictated by supporters of abortion rights. Democrats who are opponents of abortion heard Mondale’s views loud...
...leader not just at the beginning of next year when Republicans have 51 or more seats in the Senate - but next week. In fact, last Tuesday afternoon, as Lott sat in his ornate office on the second floor of the Capitol staring at two wide-screen TV's blaring election returns from ten different stations around the country, he was secretly plotting a counter-coup against Daschle. That was why the phone call that had just come in Tuesday afternoon was important. It was from Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican senator the late Paul Wellstone had unseated 12 years ago. Lott...
...leader at Romania's ARO Campulung car factory, on workers' plans to pay the plant's €20 million debt by selling their semen "I can't respond to the deputy of the deputy of the American deputy secretary." Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's President-elect, on criticism by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick "It is glorious to be allowed to join the party. But the membership fee is very high." Xiang Shaoliang, CEO of Baopu Garment, on Chinese Communist Party plans to admit entrepreneurs
BOSTON—At 11:07 p.m. a burst of confetti filled the 1,200-person ballroom at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to greet Massachusetts Governor-Elect W. Mitt Romney (R), who swept State Treasurer Shannon P. O’Brien (D) about 51 to 44 percent, with 70 percent of precincts reporting...
...Governor-Elect Kerry M. Healy ’82, who introduced Romney, strove to distance herself during the evening from the image of current Acting Governor Jane M. Swift...