Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future of this country and that my vote determines the direction in which it will go," Lopez said. "Quite frankly, I don't know what party I am so I'm here to learn what the Democratic Party is about. I eventually plan to attend a Republican function as well and figure out my political stance...
...They're really liberal, a little too liberal at times," he said. "Sometimes the party borders on lunacy, but so does the [Republican Party] so I don't know how I will end up voting...
...have run for the Senate twice in New York--unsuccessfully, alas--and I can tell you that it is no walk in the park. The tabloids try to eat you alive every day. Much worse, they go after your family. The media and Hillary's Republican opponent would surely attack her as a carpetbagger, revisit her commodities investments and Whitewater representation, distort her views on a Palestinian state and serve up snide analyses of her marriage. But I think she can successfully rebut them all. We have elected two men from out of state--a Connecticut Republican, James Buckley...
Does she need this? I don't think so. She's young and can wait four years to have her Senate seat. In 2004, Republican Peter Fitzgerald will be up for re-election in Illinois, a state that really is Hillary's home. By then, her book will have been written, her husband will be settled into a new job, Chelsea will be an adult, and the Senate will have a Democratic majority. Forget us politicos, Hillary. Do what's best...
...contender, Hillary would start out with some tremendously favorable conditions. "She's an icon in New York," says Republican Gerald Benjamin, a dean at the State University of New York in New Paltz. "She transcends ordinary politics here. The analogy is Bobby Kennedy"--another out-of-stater who was elected to the Senate in 1964. New York has 1.9 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Hillary's presence in the race would whip them into a frenzy. Among the Democrats' core constituencies--Manhattan liberals, women, unions and minorities--Hillary would bury Giuliani. The mayor's relations with blacks, especially...