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...campaign commercials as something weirder and more sinister than Dracula's castle, Newt's Congress-bashing strategy is bearing fruit. It's the Gingrich gospel you hear in the words of voters like David Bywater, 26, a Nebraskan who is supporting Republican newcomer Jan Stoney against Senator Bob Kerrey. "Seniority means you've been around too long...
...journalism degree at the University of Texas in Austin, then worked for two years on the San Antonio Light. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1981, she joined the Los Angeles Times, for which she covered everything from the oil industry to the Iran-contra affair to Bob Kerrey's 1992 campaign for the presidency. She interrupted her campaign stint to have Nicholas, now 2, with husband Paul Richter, a White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times...
...recipe for defeat. Today's market-savvy slogans are: "Congress is more the problem than the solution; they're out of touch and we're out of patience" (Fred Thompson, the Republican challenger for Senate in Tennessee). Or, "The government is the most formidable enemy of all" (Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.). The Times reports that these attitudes have spread and are now continually validated by campaign advertising from both parties...
Politics being the unpredictable game that it is, maybe the real candidate is someone still scarcely imagined. One nationwide poll of Democrats in late 1990 showed that their favorite choices for the party's nomination were Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey. And what of Bill Clinton, the man who eventually won it all? The pollsters didn't even think to ask about...
...filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid. And Sen. Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat now often at odds with President Clinton, waxed cynical, saying the public fears "we're going to cook a deal in the last three or four weeks of Congress . . . to get re-elected...