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...spending, tax-hiking mess. But that effort alone could not have worked if a lot of politicians had not sat down and done the math and found that the poll numbers did not add up the way they had long expected. In the months leading up to the midterm elections, when only the party's hard-core base of supporters can be counted on to turn up, Republicans are more concerned with the priorities of the social conservatives and the business community than with a broader public that doesn't seem to be paying much attention anyway...
...precaution, the Freshman Union--where manybelieved the virus was born--shut down for severalmeals and switched to plastic utensils and bottleddrinks. Many students had to skip the winterSocial Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics"midterm the following afternoon...
...Elizabeth A. Haynes '98 recalls(not too fondly) calling her Ec-10 teaching fellowfrom UHS and hearing him explain that having anI.V. in her arm did not give her the right to amake-up midterm. Instead, she could choose to skipthis test and have her final count for more...
Around the U.S., labor and Democrats are taking Prop. 226 very seriously. Bill Clinton has spoken against it. Party leaders are worried that labor's focus on 226 is claiming money that would otherwise go to Democrats in this year's midterm congressional elections. The AFL-CIO has pledged to raise $13 million to fight the initiative. That's nearly half the $28 million it plans to spend on the entire midterm campaign this fall. But if 226 succeeds, the unions may have a lot less to spend in the future...
...sixth year of a Democratic presidency ought to be a ripe hunting ground for G.O.P. candidates. The party holding the White House almost always gets trounced in midterm elections, on account of a thinning agenda and a sense that the best is over. But this year the trends aren't cooperating. The Republicans are running behind the Democrats in generic polls about the election, as much as 10% in some surveys. No one, especially the G.O.P., wants to be marketing scandal during the autumn. Better, as a Gingrich strategist put it, to intone, "'We have the papers; we're reviewing...