Word: gop
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...still a toss-up between the GOP'sOliver Northand incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb.ROBB 37 (Fairfax Journal) 38 (VCU)NORTH 36 36BARRETT: "North has only 35 to 37 percent hard-core support, that support appears to be impregnable. They're just not paying attention to the salvos being fired at him." The other irony: the GOP lured independent Marshall Coleman into the race to stop the loose-cannon North, but Coleman appears to be siphoning more votes off Robb...
...Washington state's Fifth House District, GOP neophyte George Nethercutt's nip-and-tuck bid to oust the House Speaker held steady. WillTom Foleybecome -- say it again -- the first sitting House Speaker to be dumped in 134 years?FOLEY: 45 (KXLY-TV)NETHERCUTT: 46BARRETT: A toss-up. But: "Foley's spent a great deal more money than Nethercutt, and he has at least gotten people to think a little bit about the value of being represented by the No. 1 member of Congress, instead of the No. 435 member...
...Michigan Senate seat held by retiring Democratic Sen. Donald Riegle is up for grabs. If the GOP's Spence Abraham is ahead of Rep. Bob Carr by 6 points or more on election night, Barrett says, it could be an indicator of whether theRepublicans will come close to controlling either house of Congress. (In the House, they need 40 seats, in the Senate, 7.) "If a swing state like Michigan gives a candidate in an open race a significant majority, that's an indication the Republicans will do very well in a lot of places."ABRAHAM 36 (Detroit News...
...polls over the last month. But don't accuse Perot of party bias. He's expected Saturday to endorse Independent New York gubernatorial candidate B. Thomas Golisano -- further damaging the lagging candidacy of theGOP's George Pataki. A poll published today has Democrat Gov. Mario Cuomo ahead of GOP candidate George Pataki by 7 points -- about the amount of Golisano's total support. Two weeks back, Cuomo was 15 points behind Pataki. One of the factors in the turnaround is Golisano, who is siphoning away Pataki's conservative base. "A vote for Golisano is a vote for Cuomo," says former...
...candidate whose ascendancy convinced lawmakers of the urgency of health care may not be curable. A poll released today shows Pennsylvania's Democratic Sen. Harris Wofford trailing Republican challenger Rep. Rick Santorum by 10 percentage points. Just two years back, Wofford won the seat, beating GOP nominee Dick Thornburgh in an upset by promising to make health care a priority. The Keystone Poll of likely voters, conducted over the weekend, showed the Republican ahead 42-32, with 23 percent of all voters still undecided. But don't close the book on Wofford: Santorum's tracking polls show the race...