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Two sons of Harvard and of famous political families, both polished Democratic moderates, won election to open Southern seats. Tennessee's Albert Gore Jr., 36, whose father served three influential terms in the Senate, was an easy victor over a weak Republican candidate. West Virginia's John D...
AMERICA, INCLUDING the moderates, long ago abandoned the ideals of the 1960s and 1970s. But while America has changed, the Democratic Party's stalwart leaders have not. The voters have abandoned the party at the presidential level to such an extent that Mondale received majority support from only the Blacks...
But the 99-seat gap between the two parties is deceptive because it masks the Republicans' true brawn, for it does not account for the swarm of vouthern Democrats--most of whom are far more conservative than Republican moderates--which has undermined partisan solidarity within the House. Given the ideological...
THE VOLATILITY of the Iowa race reflects the deep political division within the state. Jepsen has a lock on the 40 percent of the electorate that votes solid conservative, and Harkin has a similarly sized bed of committed liberal support. That leaves the middle 20 percent of the voters to...
AGAINST the background of this deadlock appears Duarte's big gamble this week, to shuck his past policy and meet with his leftist oppostion. Though, by all accounts, the talks were (in relative terms, at least) a success, Duarte is still in between a rock and a hard place. He...