Word: gop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Republican Kirk Fordice held a slim, steady lead over Gov. Ray Mabus in Mississippi, in a surprisingly strong bid to become the state's first GOP governor in more than a century...
Waterbury, Conn., had a mayoral race with the twist. Former Democratic Mayor Edward D. Bergin, acquitted in April on state bribery charges, ousted three-term GOP Mayor Joseph J. Santopietro, who faces 21 criminal charges...
Democratic National Committee chair Ron Brown and his GOP counterpart, Clayton Yeutter, jabbed at the platforms of each other's parties at the final event of a two-day celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Politics...
...shaping up to be a race between candidates who want to move the party to the right and candidates who want to return to traditional Democratic values, Harkin speaks out boldly against "walking and talking a little bit more like Republicans." He's referring to Clinton and Tsongas, two GOP accommodators who appeal more to business than to labor and prefer capital gains tax cuts to cuts in defense spending...
Harkin's powerful message--that the Republican leadership of the '80s has indulged the rich while wrecking the lives of common Americans--will appeal to labor groups and minorities, groups who have long suffered at the hands of the GOP. But his real target is middle-class America. If Harkin can continue to dazzle crowds with his fiery irreverence and populism, his explosive rhetoric ("The issue is not jobs. Hell, the slaves had jobs.") should hit home with a lot of Americans who have endured a decade of Reaganomics...