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...nearly all the big indicators the wrong way for Republicans. In a TIME poll conducted last week, Bush's job approval rating was mired at 39%; 3 in 5 Americans said the country is headed in the wrong direction, and when those surveyed were given the choice between a generic Republican and a generic Democrat for Congress, the nameless Democrat won, 50% to 41%. The signs suggest an anti-Republican wave is building, says nonpartisan electoral handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, whose Rothenberg Political Report is closely followed in Washington. "The only question is how high, how big, how much force...
...this stage, then, the Democrats' 9-point advantage in party preference may not be a reliable indicator of a shift in control of the House of Representatives. Democrats almost always trump Republicans on the generic party preference question in pre-election polling, but the voting day outcomes are often shaped by turnout. Indeed, the equivalent question in a spring 1994 Gallup survey gave the Democrats a 6-point lead - and that was the year of the Republican Revolution, in which Newt Gingrich's troops, armed with their Contract with America, gained control of both chambers of Congress...
...controversial. Markus R.T. Kolic ’09, one of four undergraduates admitted to the event by lottery, wrote in an e-mail that he was impressed that Dean had a clear plan. “The 6-point plan was less important for its content, which was fairly generic Democratic talking points (improving the health care system, etc.) than for the simple fact that it existed,” Kolic wrote. “Dean prefaced it by talking about the widespread media perception that Democrats have no message and proceeded to counter it by listing, rapid-fire...
...life, going back and forth between camouflage and pearls. Sarvis, who likes to wear glittering chandelier earrings, thinks she has become much more consciously feminine when out of uniform since joining ROTC.Waterman tries to resist that separation. She purposefully takes a pink sports bag to ROTC rather than a generic backpack, and when she wears her BDUs to class, she brings her laptop in a hot pink bag. But Bras and Waterman agree that it can also be a relief to be in uniform; they are judged only by their performance, not their gender. “It?...
...that a single team doesn't have to enter different cars in different races. Right now, the No. 16 car that Craig Biffle drives at the .526-mile Martinsville Speedway, for instance, isn't the vehicle he drives at the 2.66-mile Talladega. The new design, however, is more generic, allowing cars to adjust for tracks by adjusting the rear wing and the front splitter. "For the price of a wing, you can change the entire feel of the race car," says Pemberton...