Word: republican
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With 82 percent of precincts reporting, Capuano had a commanding lead, with 81 percent of the vote. His nearest challenger, Republican J. Phillip Hyde, had 12 percent. Two other candidates, Andrea Morell of the Socialist Workers Party, and Anthony Schinella, an independent, split the remaining 7 percent...
While many of his primary challengers promoted broad spending plans and radical change to government programs in the face of Republican governance, Capuano said he tried to strike a balance between political necessity and pragmatism...
...Seventy-seven percent of the Democrats didn't vote for Mike [in the primary.] And a lot of them were pretty disappointed...In 1996, I lost [the Republican primary] by 8,000 more votes than...
Elsewhere in the country, Republicans did not fare as badly, with Massachusetts Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci beating out his Democratic challenger, State Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64, and a Republican defeating incumbent Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun in Illinois...
...Gray Davis, a Democrat, defeated the Republican candidate for governor in California, State Attorney General Dan Lungren. In the state's Senate race, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) beat another GOP hopeful, State Treasurer Matt Fong...