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...Wright of Texas -- and prompted the resignation of a senior Democrat -- Tony Coelho, now a part-time adviser to the Clinton White House. This year Gingrich ambushed the crime bill and forced an embarrassed Clinton Administration into overdrive to save it. Says Mickey Edwards, a former eight-term Oklahoma Republican and now a full-time lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "He's made the Democratic leadership deal with a strong political force on the other side...
...week's primary results were not happy ones for Democrats. In Oklahoma, voters ousted veteran Representative Mike Synar, a liberal Clinton ally and an anti-tobacco, antigun war-horse. Nominated in his place was Virgil Cooper, a retired school principal. In Washington State, House Speaker Thomas Foley won a mere 35% of the vote in his state's open primary; four Republican candidates received the balance of the vote. "We are in a period of hesitation and uncertainty," President Clinton told Democrats at a post-primary pep talk. His prescription: "What we have to do is make this election...
...other Oklahoma races, voters overwhelmingly approved a measure that will restrict U.S. representatives to three two-year terms and senators to two six-year terms...
...Democrats chose Lt. Gov. Jack Mildren over state Sen. Bernice Shedrick, 59 percent to 41 percent, in a gubernatorial runoff. Mildren, a former University of Oklahoma football star, will face Republican Frank Keating, a former Justice Department official, and independent Wes Watkins...
...most trouble in this fall's elections: a) liberals; b) Democrats; or c) incumbents? The answer: any combination of the three, according to pundits and poll watchers trying to explain today's primary upset of 16-year Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar. In one of the biggest electoral turnabouts in the state's history, the 43-year-old Okie from Muskogee became the third House member to lose a primary this year. Voters fed up with the Clinton-like liberal handed 51 percent of the ballot to a 71-year-old retired school principal instead. BTW: How bad is it? Senate...