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...HAROLD ROGERS (R) District 5 (Southeast--Middlesboro; Pikeville
...case of fellow Missourian Harry Truman, newspapers reported (after the primary) that Hulshof had lost his election; and as with Truman, they were wrong. In the end, Hulshof won the nomination by 168 votes, confirming his expertise in close finishes--he lost to incumbent Harold Volkmer by 5% in 1994. But with Volkmer's support dwindling in the past two elections, Hulshof could wake up on Nov. 6 to find out...Dewey won again...
...Ronald D. Coleman, D-Texas (16) Barbara-Rose Collins, D-Mich. (15)* Cardiss Collins, D-Ill. (7) Wes Cooley R-Ore. (2) Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill. (20) E. ("Kika") de la Garza, D-Texas (15) Cleo Fields D-La. (4) Jack Fields, R-Texas (8) Harold E. Ford, D-Tenn. (9) Pete Geren, D-Texas (12) Sam M. Gibbons, D-Fla. (11) Enid Greene [Waldholtz], R-Utah (2) Steve Gunderson, R-Wis. (3) Mel Hancock, R-Mo. (7) Jimmy Hayes, R-La. (7) Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark. (3) Andrew Jacobs Jr., D-Ind. (10) Tim Johnson...
Tennessee was one of the plum prizes of the Republican revolution--in 1994 the Volunteer State, with a Democratic tradition dating back to Reconstruction, elected two Republican Senators and shifted its House delegation from 6-to-3 Democratic to 5-to-4 Republican. Two retirees, Jamie Quillen (R) and Harold Ford (D) will probably not affect the balance this year. But Democrats are hoping tradition will reassert itself--especially in the Vice President's state--and allow them to take the state of the Grand Ole Opry away from the Grand Old Party...
DeBerry lost to Harold Ford Sr. in 1994 and gets a rematch of sorts, running against Ford's son. The conservative DeBerry advocates term limits, a "zero-tolerance stance" on violent crime and a $500-per-child tax credit. This is good conservatism for the Ninth, but in a district where per-capita income is only $11,296, bootstraps capitalism may be a hard sell...