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PAUL HACKETT, Iraq veteran and Democrat who lost a House seat by only 3,573 votes in a heavily Republican district in Ohio, in a special election viewed by both parties as a prelude to the 2006 midterm elections...
Cheryl Jacques, another fall IOP fellow, said she plans to be active in the 2008 election cycle, which starts as soon as the 2006 Congressional midterm elections are completed...
...spreading scandal is a particular concern to Republicans in light of next year's midterm elections. Abramoff's name has become associated in Washington with more than just typical lobbying excess. He is an intimate of the self-described revolutionaries who took power on the Hill in 1994 on promises of cleaning house after decades of Democratic control and, as such, is seen as the personification of the Republican revolution gone awry. It doesn't help that the Indian tribal money that made Abramoff so influential around town came mostly from profits from gambling, which many conservatives view as immoral...
Reagan plans to campaign and raise funds for vulnerable Republican candidates. Yet the President will probably be taking to the stump with mixed feelings. Whatever the outcome of the midterm race, it will mark the last election of his tenure and signal the real beginning of the presidential race to succeed him. With wide-open nomination battles all but certain in both major parties, the end of 1986 will usher in a two-year political hullabaloo that will increasingly drown out more measured discussions of how to handle the deficit, taxes and the critical challenges of the nuclear...
...that Hart is well known is his biggest advantage, but also his biggest disadvantage. In any case, the list of hopefuls doubtless will undergo both additions and subtractions even before the 1988 campaign starts in earnest. Which most probably will be Nov. 5, the day after this year's midterm elections. --By George J. Church. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Denver and Hays Gorey/Washington