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...elections were held today, top strategists of both parties say privately, the Republicans would probably lose the 15 seats they need to keep control of the House of Representatives and could come within a seat or two of losing the Senate as well. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who masterminded the 1994 elections that brought Republicans to power on promises of revolutionizing the way Washington is run, told TIME that his party has so bungled the job of governing that the best campaign slogan for Democrats today could be boiled down to just two words: "Had enough...
...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...
...Gingrich's Contract was a voter-friendly manifesto that tied together Republican advantages on themes as disparate as congressional ethics and tax policy into a manifesto for an electoral landslide. The Democrats may envy the former House Speaker's success in creating a winning narrative, given the large advantage they enjoy on issues such as rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, protecting Americans' rights, standing up to special interests and corruption, managing government spending and tax policy. Still, the Republicans retain an 11-point edge over the Democrats on the question of dealing with terrorism, while voters are evenly split...
...rattled off six current and former legislators who had come to Washington married to a "high school sweetheart type" back home and then found themselves married a second time to someone a little more "in the game"--a staff member or lobbyist, usually. My friend added, for emphasis, "Newt Gingrich has done it at least twice." People don't just want not to be "the wife"--they also don't want to be married...
...Newt Gingrich is a former Speaker of the House; John M. Barry is the author of Rising Tide and The Great Influenza