Word: margined
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...result, official spending calculations can be misleading. In September, eight-term Representative Mike Synar, also in Oklahoma, narrowly lost a Democratic runoff primary to Virgil Cooper, a retired principal. Cooper's victory seemed all the more astounding since Synar, the well-funded incumbent, had outspent him by a huge margin. But in fact, if all the money invested in supposedly nonpartisan voter-education efforts by interest groups opposed to Synar were added to Cooper's total, Synar may have been outspent. The increase in this kind of spending is coming mostly from organizations on the political right. "What you have...
Polls show Weld leading Roosevelt by a huge margin--testimony to the general satisfaction with the status quo in Massachusetts. But many voters realize Weld has been along for the ride, enjoying a windfall from a tax increase passed while Dukakis was in office...
...challenger Jeb Bush, the former president's son who's been ahead for weeks. A Mason-Dixon/PMR poll of 809 registered voters last week has Chiles -- a former senator who's never lost an election -- at 48 percent to Bush's 45 percent (with a 3.5 percent error margin). Two weeks ago, Bush was five points ahead. BTW: The two go head-to-head tonight in their third debate, to be televised live on C-SPAN...
...four elections, Social Democratic leader Rudolf Scharping calls Kohl's alliance "a coalition of losers." Kohl did not seem worried last week. "A majority is a majority," he observed. Correct, and ! Helmut Schmidt, one of Germany's most effective Chancellors, governed for six years with an identical 10-seat margin. For that matter, Konrad Adenauer became Chancellor in 1949 by a majority of only one seat. Kohl is betting that he will be on hand two years from now to celebrate overtaking Adenauer's postwar record of 14 years in office...
...written off as the first sitting House Speaker to be dumped in 134 years after all. The latest poll in his eastern Washington district, published Sunday in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, found Foley had climbed to within two points of Republican George Nethercutt, 44-46. With the error margin, it's a dead heat. The poll follows Foley's newest strategy: reminding Spokane-area residents that the pork stops if he loses. BTW: Foley's message might be sinking in: a recent poll that found 30 percent of the district's voters thought a freshman Nethercutt would become House Speaker...