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...Lazio was running against an anti-anti-Clinton sentiment; in other words, though plenty of people in New York State were disgusted by the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, at least as many had come away from the last six years equating Lazio's former boss (Newt Gingrich) with Satan incarnate. For pretty much every Clinton-fatigue vote that went to Lazio, at least one GOP-fatigue ballot went to Clinton. And Bill Clinton's wife picked up quite a few sympathy votes, as well - because while Hillary never showed a weepy face to the public, her anguish...
Chabot, a "Gingrich Freshman," was running for his fourth term...
Although the Democrats gained ground in the Senate and the House, they did not regain the much-vaunted majority that they had lost in the 1994 Gingrich revolution. Some attributed this to the fact that the party lacked a national theme...
...blessing of the election of 2000 may be that no one emerges from it with "a mandate," for mandates are an invitation to simple-minded zealotry. The Gingrich Republicans thought they had a mandate after the 1994 elections. They played it hard and stupid; look at the grief they quickly came...
...Democrats have been plotting to win back the House since the Gingrich revolution, and hope that a strong turnout from the Democratic base will carry Gore and Congressional candidates to victory...