Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES I was disappointed in your item "Who Says There's No Difference Among the Candidates?" [CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK, Oct. 7], giving sketchy coverage to other parties' candidates for President. You included certain platform information without any development because you thought it would be entertaining. That is a technique a politician would use: take facts and distort them. You said these candidates will appear on the ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke...
Except for a one-paragraph blurb that is supposed to describe Ralph Nader's platform, you have virtually ignored or dismissed Nader's candidacy. But I've seen surveys showing Nader with more support than Ross Perot, who has truly become the joke of this campaign. How about some real reporting on Nader's quixotic attack on the two-party system? Save the coverage of Perot's ramblings for the one-paragraph "amusing" blurbs. MIKE MYERS La Jolla, California Via E-mail...
Democrats lost an Alabama Senate seat when Richard Shelby switched parties. Now, with Howell Heflin stepping down, they could lose the other. But Bedford, who underwent a 1990 bone-marrow transplant to combat cancer, is a fighter with the experience to win. Campaigning on a family-and-faith platform, he opposes school vouchers and supports federal programs that help children...
Politics in Alabama being conservative, Democrats often vote like Republicans, so the G.O.P. counts on Session's name recognition to give him an edge for this open seat. Like his opponent, Sessions is passionately anti-drug and pro-family, but he's also campaigning on a Republican platform of lower taxes and fiscal frugality. He's for "modest cuts" in spending, but he vows to stand by Medicare and Social Security. If elected, Sessions would give the g.o.p. control of both Alabama Senate seats for the first time since Reconstruction...
With the departure of 15-term Democrat Tom Bevill, Republicans consider the Fourth a takeover target. Though youthful, Aderholt is an experienced conservative with a time-honored platform of lower taxes and "traditional" values--school prayer, the prohibition of abortion, the absolute right to keep and bear arms. In a 93% white district that has supported Republican presidential candidates for the past 20 years, voters may see Bevill's departure as a chance to pass power from old Democratic hands to new and eager Republican ones...