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Last week Tumulty was back on the road, following Foley from Walla Walla to Spokane and catching up with Gingrich in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Georgia. She has known both men for 10 years. Watching Foley regain strength in the waning days of his campaign reminded her that "for all the anger out there, the vast majority of incumbents will get re-elected." As for Gingrich, she says, he is a good lesson in the perils of political under-estimation. "Just five years ago, he was a backbencher the Democrats thought they could dismiss as a gnat...
...certain Oklahoma churches this fall, the Christian Coalition is handing out voter guides that contain information about the positions held by the two candidates for the state's open U.S. Senate seat, James Inhofe and Dave McCurdy. Outwardly unbiased and factual, the voter guide says McCurdy, a Democrat, supports "banning ownership of legal firearms," a fairly misleading statement based on McCurdy's vote for the crime bill, which included a ban on 19 types of assault weapons...
...organizations explicitly support a candidate, voter guides and get-out-the- vote campaigns are ostensibly nonpartisan, meaning the amount spent does not have to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission. As a result, official spending calculations can be misleading. In September, eight-term Representative Mike Synar, also in Oklahoma, narrowly lost a Democratic runoff primary to Virgil Cooper, a retired principal. Cooper's victory seemed all the more astounding since Synar, the well-funded incumbent, had outspent him by a huge margin. But in fact, if all the money invested in supposedly nonpartisan voter-education efforts by interest groups...
...counteract genes until we know more about them." Learning more about basic issues in science and technology has been a lifelong passion for Wright, 37. His first book was Three Scientists and Their Gods (1988), which alternated profiles with essays on science and philosophy. Born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and educated at Princeton, he lives with his wife and two young daughters in Washington. He will start a new book "when I get over this...
...angriest) to turn out and vote on Nov. 8. Democratic stalwarts like Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Senator Jim Sasser of Tennessee and House Speaker Tom Foley are running behind or just even in their races. Their challengers appeal to voters like Kevin Davis, an electrical technician from Okmulgee, Oklahoma. "I hate career politicians," he says. "I think they ought to serve a term...