Word: populistic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...battleground races went blue. Top G.O.P. leaders fought off tough challenges in New York and Ohio. Tough pol Tom Reynolds of upstate New York threw off his entanglement in the Mark Foley scandal to beat populist millionaire Jack Davis, and Ohio's Deborah Pryce, a centrist in the House leadership, pulled out her tough race against Mary Jo Kilroy. And in the tight House race in Connecticut's fourth district, Chris Shays was leading Diane Farrell in a death-defying G.O.P. win in hostile territory...
...Angelides tried to ignite his bid with a populist pitch to raise taxes on big corporations and rich individuals and cut rates for middle-class families. He also hoped his hard-hitting ads linking Schwarzenegger to President Bush would resonate. But neither move has caught fire. So what can Angelides do in the closing week of the campaign to pull off a political miracle, if anything? We collected opinions from across the political spectrum...
Reynolds urged Mark Foley to seek re-election despite knowing of a complaint against him by the parents of a House page, but Reynolds was already vulnerable to the populist Davis because of his district's struggling economy. Pork projects like a $25 million biotech center in Buffalo are keeping him in the race...
...Iran's Populist Lost His Popularity With prices rising and the economy stagnating, Iranians view their President as less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats
...races say married women are a key target group in both states, as they comprise a large number of the undecided votes there. A top GOP strategist says of the three crucial states: "Older white women who were raised Democrats and who are culturally more conservative and economically more populist obviously are very critical in every one of those races...