Word: gop
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...easy to cast Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 as an anachronism. GOP challenger and living Ken-doll W. Mitt Romney has obviously figured that...
...government," she said.The endorsement could have a significant impact on the outcome of the race -- so far a dead heat, says TIME Austin Bureau Chief Sam Gwynne. "Even one percent counts in this race," he says. But the endorsement is particularly significant since most Perot fans are likely GOP voters, says Gwynne...
MaybeTom Foley, who's been trailing a neophyte GOP challenger by as many as 19 points, can't be written off as the first sitting House Speaker to be dumped in 134 years after all. The latest poll in his eastern Washington district, published Sunday in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, found Foley had climbed to within two points of Republican George Nethercutt, 44-46. With the error margin, it's a dead heat. The poll follows Foley's newest strategy: reminding Spokane-area residents that the pork stops if he loses. BTW: Foley's message might be sinking...
...York's Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo has overtaken his GOP challenger George Pataki and raced ahead with a double digit lead, two polls show. In mid-October, Cuomo was trailing Pataki by nearly ten points andAlbany was gearing up for Republican purge. But today a New York Post-Fox 5 TV poll had Cuomo up by 15 points and a New York Times-WCBS TV poll had Cuomo up by 10 points.Post to 1994 Elections...
...Friday , just hours after former First Lady Nancy Reagan called Virginia GOP Senate hopefulOliver Northa liar, Vice President Al Gore got himself in trouble with the following jab at North's $17 million war chest: "He is banking on the fact that he can raise enough money from the extreme right-wing -- the extra-chromosome right wing -- to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth with blatant falsehoods." North's campaign staff seized on the phrase to accuse Gore of insensitivity to children with Down's Syndrome, pointing out that extra chromosomes cause the condition. Gore...