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...State, famous for potatoes, continuous snow in winter, and Ruby Ridge, sometimes seems like two states in one: the southern section, with its flourishing high-tech industries and conservative Republican politics, influenced by the substantial Mormon population that migrated north from Utah in the 1860s, and the more remote northern areas, filled with Idaho's notorious militias and survivalists. At some level, resentment of government seems to unite the Idaho population, probably because the Feds own 65% of the state's land, including national forest and wilderness areas; and this year's hot-button issue is the huge Idaho National...
...number of Democrats in the Fifth, he has never won with less than 62% of the vote. Sabo was a tenacious champion for raising the minimum wage, and from his position on the Appropriations Committee he works to get research funds for the University of Minnesota and help the high-tech companies flourishing in his district...
With a resume lined with lobbying successes for high-tech constituents, Eshoo will be tough to beat. A member of the Commerce Committee, which oversees bills relating to electronics and biotechnology, she drafted the Online Parental Control Act of 1996. A further irritant to Ben Brink's online challenge, Eshoo won this year's Semiconductor Industry Association's Congressional Leadership Award...
Oregon's larger towns--including Eugene, Corvallis and Portland--are enclaves of high-tech industry, university students and environmentalists. Loggers in the Cascade Mountains, millworkers in towns like Roseburg ("Timber Capital of the Nation") and eastern Oregon farmers and ranchers, however, are more conservative, fueling the ongoing "lumber wars" and keeping the state's delegation to the House divided. In the Senate, two Republicans have held sway for nearly 30 years, but the party's dominance may be coming to an abrupt end: earlier this year, the disgraced Bob Packwood was replaced by a Democrat, and now Mark Hatfield...
Harman's victories have been close--chillingly so in 1994--but even her opponents agree that in guarding the district's main economic interests, defense and high-tech industries, "No one," as an aide to a G.O.P. Congressman said, "is more aggressive and tenacious, and that's putting it nicely." Also helpful are her deep pockets--Harman spent $2.3 million in 1992, fourth highest for a U.S. congressional race, and $1.3 million...