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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA SENATE . . . IMPREGNABLE OLLIE | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEROT FACTOR . . . DIVIDED HE STANDS | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEALTH-CARE CANDIDATE MAY BE OUT | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Vote for Kennedy | 11/2/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEROT BACKS RICHARDS IN TOUGH TEXAS RACE | 11/1/1994 | See Source »

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