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...Denver metropolitan area. Politically, the state seems marked by equally sharp peaks and valleys: the first state to enact term limits for state representatives in 1990, in 1992 it approved Measure 2, which rescinded state and local laws banning discrimination against gays. In this election, two House races will fill seats left vacant by long-time Representatives--Patricia Schroeder in the First and the Fourth's Wayne Allard, who is leaving to run for the Senate. That Senate seat is vacant as well, and both Allard and Democrat Tom Strickland have legitimate hopes of filling...
...good mix of Democratic and Republican representatives testifies to the state's moderate place in American politics--except for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Illinoisians have voted for every presidential winner for 100 years. But two open House seats and a hotly contested race to fill Paul Simon's Democratic Senate seat could upset the delicate balance...
...Sept. 21 primary guaranteed that a Democrat would fill the seat of Republican incumbent Jim Hayes, who failed this year in his bid for the Senate. John, who beat fellow Democrat Hunter Lundy, might be called the more moderate of the two conservatives. But like Lundy, he is antiabortion, supports a balanced budget and less government interference. And John hopes to ride his primary victory to a general-election win to become the revamped Seventh's first representative...
When Seventh District Representative Kweisi Mfume resigned in February to become president of the NAACP, Cummings easily won an April special election to fill that seat, and he's running now for his first full term. The son of sharecroppers, he vows to follow Mfume's path of liberalism and support for blacks and the urban poor. In his six months in office, Cummings has kept his vow, supporting economic development and affirmative action in black communities and sponsoring funding for urban teen centers to serve as alternatives to street gangs...
Neal pounced on the chance to fill this seat when 36-year incumbent Edward Boland retired in 1988. Eight years later, with a Capitol Hill reputation for working effectively behind the scenes, he sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He voted for medical leave and the line-item veto but, to protect his district's medical-service industries, balked at the President's 1993 health-care plan...