Word: lose
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Democrats lost an Alabama Senate seat when Richard Shelby switched parties. Now, with Howell Heflin stepping down, they could lose the other. But Bedford, who underwent a 1990 bone-marrow transplant to combat cancer, is a fighter with the experience to win. Campaigning on a family-and-faith platform, he opposes school vouchers and supports federal programs that help children...
...Bush by substantial margins in both '88 and '92--against a solid Republican, six-term incumbent. But he has been this route before and apparently wasn't discouraged by his 34-point 1994 loss, against the same opponent. Womack predicts that "the Gingrich budget" would cause Alabamans to lose billions of dollars in funding for Medicaid, Medicare and child-nutrition programs...
Kilpatrick made Barbara-Rose Collins the first Democratic House member in the nation to lose a primary, convincingly beating the troubled incumbent 51% to 31%. In the Michigan House, Kilpatrick sponsored a bill to allow Detroit riverfront development and helped prevent the re-routing of federal highway funds from the local to the state level. Her liberal platform gives her an advantage over Stephen Hume in this Democratic district...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I was a cop when we were called pigs. I was a lawyer and people hate lawyers. Now I'm a politician when everyone hates politicians. I can take it. I won't lose any sleep over...
...reinvigorated if families have economic security, reliable health care and, most of all, education. A good education, he says, is a person's only hope of bettering himself or herself. In a land where a ceo now makes 190 times more than an average worker, Costley believes we lose our greatest source of national pride. But good ideas from a candidate with no experience may still leave Costley with a tough race...