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Millner, a popular Atlanta business executive who nearly won the governorship two years ago, is a conservative Republican committed to lower taxes, a balanced-budget amendment, better health-care systems through free-market incentives and support for local law-and-order crime programs, including tough work requirements for prisoners and mandatory minimum sentencing...
...Governor Carroll Campbell. Dole, who has said frequently that he needed to be comfortable with his running mate, has always liked McCain. But the former Vietnam P.O.W. had his drawbacks, including being a member of the "Keating Five." Campbell is highly popular in the South, but since leaving the governorship he has been chief Washington lobbyist for the insurance industry, the ultimate in Beltway insider jobs...
Goldsmith has never made any secret of his big political ambitions. When he successfully sought a second term as mayor last year, he warned voters that even if he won, he might make a run for the governorship. He did. In May he won the G.O.P. gubernatorial primary, despite the fact that Indiana's Republican leadership lined up behind one of his opponents, a former state-party chairman. Polls now show Goldsmith, 49, running 6 points ahead of his opponent, Lieutenant Governor Frank O'Bannon. Hoosier voters seem to appreciate his rapid-fire speech but also his consistent campaign promises...
...earliest pre-Roe v. Wade laws that permitted abortion in certain circumstances, which later became a national model. In the early 1970s, he caught the swells of an awakening environmental movement and kept the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits...
...that good news is tempered by the growing willingness of politicians from both major parties to sow racial anxiety in the hope of electoral gain. When a progressive Democrat like Blumenthal, eyeing the governorship, links arms with a conservative Republican against a desegregation decision, it's cause for a pause. To his credit, however, Blumenthal seems to have reconsidered his initial reaction, which sparked strong criticism from Connecticut blacks (reportedly including some members of his own staff). In an interview a few days after the ruling, the attorney general stressed that he has no plans to challenge the opinion...