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Both candidates embraced by the President and even those only marginally connected to Clinton lost elections to Republicans committed to the Contract with America proposed by U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), likely the next Speaker of the House...
...York, three-term Governor Mario A. Cuomo, who stood beside Clinton at countless fundraisers, lost to George Pataki, a state senator who blamed the state's job losses on the programs of the President and the Governor. U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee and a Clinton ally in the drafting of the Crime Bill, lost his seat too. Brooks was criticized earlier in the year on national television by Republican standard bearer Gingrich for adding "pork" to the bill...
...Pennsylvania, first-term U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-Pa.), who cast the deciding vote on the Clinton budget proposal, lost her first re-election campaign, despite assurances from Clinton that he would personally campaign...
...Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), campaigning in Georgia this weekend, made the ridiculous assertion that the Smith tragedy could have been averted under a Republican administration...
With a syllogism possible only in the logic of politics,Rep. Newt Gingrich(R-Ga.) linked the Smith case to the midterm elections this weekend: "I think the mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change," Gingrich said Saturday on a campaign swing through Georgia. "I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican. That's the message for the last three days."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...