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...turned out, though, a Harvard insurance run in the top of the eighth provided the margin of victory...
...amendment-adornment that kept McCain-Feingold on the brink of death the last two weeks, double them for the House, and then multiply by four. Sunday, New York Democrat Charles Rangel told CNN he knew how it would come out: The measure would pass the House by a slim margin - and then die of a Republican "poison pill" when it goes to a conference committee. "It will never reach the President's desk," Rangel said...
...agreement yesterday on hard-money limits - at 86-14, an extraordinarily large margin of victory - all but assures that McCain-Feingold is going to pass. The only question is will it pass in a form that the courts find constitutional, or a form that the courts find unconstitutional. Besides that, it's just a matter of when...
...Sounds reasonable, right? It also walked a very fine line. Hard money is the fund-raising category in which Democrats still trail Republicans by a considerable margin. So they were understandably leery of doubling or tripling that margin of defeat. On the other side of the aisle, however, a hike in hard-money limits may have been the minimum price for Republican support - which McCain dearly wanted, especially when that non-severability vote comes around sometime Thursday...
...November election, the battleground was competing ballot propositions. Prop L, advanced by artists and activists, would have protected artists' spaces from dotcom takeovers, while Mayor Willie Brown's Prop K would have set less stringent limits on new office development. Both propositions lost--L by a razor-thin margin. But the people may be gaining the upper hand. In December's district runoff elections, the 11-member board of supervisors swerved sharply to the left, upsetting the mayor's politically moderate, growth-friendly power base...