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...refusal to spend another $1 million on advertising in California, where Senator Dianne Feinstein is facing an extremely rough challenge from Republican Congressman Michael Huffington. Wilhelm had already invested $1 million in California. Overall, in fact, he has devoted a total of $10 million to date to the midterm races. That exceeds by far what previous chairmen spent. But Democrats are desperate this year...
...penalty provisions, should not have stopped it. If the Administration couldn't push that through, what were the prospects for the much more complicated contraption that is universal health care? And beyond that, for the remaining two years of the President's term? Given that losses in November's midterm elections will almost certainly shave the Democratic majority in Congress next year, the defeat had Washington asking the most unnerving question any President can hear: Could this be the beginning of the end of Bill Clinton's presidency...
...midterm national elections will be a barometer for determining which political party is gaining control, Boston Globe columnist John Ellis said yesterday during a discussion at the Institute of Politics...
Clinton may then attempt to drive the Republican party farther to the right, a strategy reminiscent of Nixon's attempt to push the Democrats farther left after the midterm elections of 1970, Ellis said...
Which is why, as they head toward this year's midterm elections, incumbents worry about fallout from the Rostenkowski indictment. Former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon remembers how, just weeks before his unsuccessful 1992 primary bid against Carol Moseley-Braun, the House banking scandal erupted onto Chicago's front pages. "My polls dropped 7 points in one day, and we didn't even have a bank in the Senate...