Word: gop
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...Bush victory, no matter how large, will not change that. There are currently 255 Democrats and 177 Republicans in the House. Since better than 90 percent of all members of Congress are re-elected each term, nothing short of an act of God could return the House to the GOP...
...Republicans, the Senate is more promising than the House, but even there it is unlikely that the GOP will regain a majority. The Democrats currently have 54 seats as compared to the Republicans' 46. There are 33 Senate seats--18 Democrats, 15 Republican--up for grabs this year, and polls indicate that the Democrats will not only hold on to most of the seats they already have, but also should take away some from the GOP...
...Republicans have targeted New Jersey and Ohio as two key states, and have been able to recruit viable candidates in each. The GOP is still hopeful that Pete Dawkins will be able to upset Democratic incumbent Frank Lautenberg in the Garden State despite polls showing Dawkins slightly behind. Dawkins--a Heisman Trophy winner at West Point who became an Army General and later a successful business executive--would seem a mirror image of Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), who went from Princeton to Oxford to the New York Knicks to the U.S. Senate. But after performing well in early...
Ohio may also become a win for the GOP, which has tapped Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich to run against incumbent Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum. Voinovich has raised a lot of money, but his negative campaign ads appear to have hurt him more than helped. Metzenbaum, who has a fairly comfortable lead in the polls, has also had the support of Ohio's popular Gov. Richard Celeste...
THERE are also several Republicans who are sure bets to win re-election, including Orrin Hatch (Ut.), Richard Lugar (Ind.), John C. Danforth (Mo.) and John Heinz (Pa.). The Bush campaign's success in restoring confidence in GOP leadership after Reagan popularity began to diminish has helped some Republican incumbents who would have faced much more serious challenges. Sen. Dave F. Durenberger (R-Minn.) continues to hold onto a fairly strong lead against Hubert H. Humphrey III, the son of the former vice president...