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...University, according to many Washington observers, was associated with the policies of the Democratic Party, a party which many said was decisively repudiated in last year's midterm elections...
LAST OCTOBER, WHEN PRESIDENT Clinton's inner circle was peddling him a comparatively rosy take on the midterm elections, one unlikely outsider was sending an alarm. Dick Morris, a Democratic turned Republican consultant who had worked for Clinton in Arkansas, told the President the Democrats would lose 50 seats in the House and control of the Senate as well. The prediction was so prescient that Clinton, though hardly lacking for advisers, has continued to partake of Morris' counsel, usually over the phone but sometimes during private sessions in the White House residence. He even directed the Democratic National Committee...
...Together people know what they need and when they need it. After arriving on time to section, they pull out precisely the books they need, plus a couple of last week's books in case the TF decides to do a little contrast and comparison. They know where the midterm from their first-year Foreign Cultures Core class is filed away, and can produce it for future generations. They do not forget appointments...
Live by the polls, die by the polls. The same surveys Luntz and Gingrich employed to stitch the contract together last summer are now compelling some Republicans to think about unraveling it. Nearly five months after the midterm election, Americans are worried more about reducing the deficit than reducing taxes, jeopardizing what Gingrich calls the "crowning jewels" in the contract. The popularity of spending cuts in general remains high, but the prospect of cutting school lunches and welfare benefits for indigent parents is distinctly less so--a harbinger of trouble when deeper and more specific cuts in middle-class programs...
...professor wouldn't excuse me," said Amy E.Neff '95. "He said the midterm was only an hour ofmy time, and it turned out to be only an hour ofmy time...