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Hunt said the GOP will have control over the next two years and that the debate will then shift again. "Bill Clinton will be re-elected in 1996," he said...
...government. That's not what we were promised. And that's not what this country needs." Another spot showcases the now infamous leaked OMB memo that raises the prospect of administration schemes to slash Social Security and Medicare. Will the ads play?TIME senior correspondent Laurence I. Barrettthinks the GOP timing may be off. In midterm contests, he says, "Republicans tend to try to nationalize elections and Democrats tend to localize elections. And we're at the stage now where candidates are back home and local issues and debates come into play...
...California, Democrat Kathleen Brown is inching up in her race against GOP Gov. Pete Wilson, although her gains among those likely to vote are less dramatic. According to a Los Angeles Times poll, Brown lags 48 to 45 percent behind Wilson, but the difference is within the poll's error margin. Two weeks ago, Brown trailed by eight points. Still if younger less reliable voters are removed from the picture, Wilson leads 52-43. Brown's gains come as she has distanced herself from Wilson-backed Proposition 187 -- which would stop illegal aliens from receiving social services. A majority...
...Huffingtonhas based much of his Senate campaign against Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein on combatting illegal immigration, but now he admits employing an illegal alien in his posh Santa Barbara home for five years. Early Wednesday -- right after he reaffirmed his support for the anti-illegal immigration Proposition 187 -- the GOP nominee was asked whether he'd had ever employed an illegal alien, a violation of federal law. His answer: no problem he knew of. But last night, the Huffington camp issued a terse confession -- plus a so-far unsupported accusation that Feinstein had done the same thing. The Huffington campaign...
...letter notes how often each incumbent voted to bust a filibuster in the last two years. The perfect scorers were all Democrats. The bottom three, all in the GOP minority, were Wyoming Sens. Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wallop and North Carolina's Jesse Helms...