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...Republican revolution is over. Speaker Newt Gingrich, the confrontational rebel who engineered the GOP's 1994 takeover of the House after more than four decades of Democratic dominance, announced Friday that he would resign from the Congress, just three days after midterm elections which reduced the Republican advantage to a thin 11-vote margin...
Still, both Cox and Livingston are staunch conservatives, and it appears the GOP will miss this opportunity to change the ideology of its leadership. If the midterm elections showed anything, they showed a polarized Republican party: moderate Republicans like Gov. A. Paul Cellucci and Texas Gov. George W. Bush were successful, while the more conservative wing suffered losses in gubernatorial and senate races from Alabama to California...
...clear away the clutter of the midterm elections and turn our energies to the next two years of presidential speculation, many of us find ourselves rooting unabashedly for one candidate in particular to enter the race. Who is that candidate...
...outcome of Tuesday's elections, was, to say the least, a surprise. In the middle of only the third impeachment proceeding in history, the Democrats actually gained seats in the House. Democrats have not picked up seats in a midterm election while having a President in office since the presidency of James Monroe...
While there were several disappointments on Tuesday, including the election of Jesse "the Body" Ventura as governor of Minnesota and the success of an anti-affirmative action referendum in Washington state, on the whole, these midterm elections have had a cleansing effect on American politics...