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...Elect Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) served in the Illinois General Assembly. He knocked off a first-term Republican incumbent in the Nov. 5 elections. And he's been to Disneyland...
Some politicians had to accommodate a lot faster than Dole or Clinton. In Washington State first-term Republican Congressman Randy Tate, elected in 1994 as a classic young conservative revolutionary, ran television commercials in 1996 denouncing his Democratic opponent (named, hilariously, Adam Smith) as a lying "liberal." Smith's alleged liberal lies were mainly that Tate wanted to cut a variety of liberal spending programs--not just Medicare but also student loans and so on. Tate, the ads insisted, actually voted to increase spending on these programs...
Like Dole, Clinton ended the way he began in early 1996. At every stop on his 18-state final tour, he spoke of unity and "common ground," of meeting challenges together, of "opportunity, responsibility and community." He distilled his first-term accomplishments into a few impressive paragraphs--10.7 million new jobs, 4.5 million new home owners, and on and on in a giddy boast that took flight and soared clear into tomorrow: "Let us build a bridge together, wide enough and strong enough to carry all of us into the bright future that is America in the 21st century...
...Army-Navy matchup in space territory, this former submarine commander hopes to surgically remove his first-term incumbent opponent. Byron stresses educational issues, especially supporting federal student-aid programs. A private-school graduate himself, Byron opposes efforts to spend public funds to send students to private schools...
Once upon a time in the '60s, in the days when the culture wars began, there lived an obscure first-term Governor of Maryland--a sleek-looking silvery man who wore sharkskin suits and had hooded eyes that got very small when he was angry. At such moments he looked like a bullet. His name was Spiro Agnew...