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...proposition the angry Californians did pass limits members of the state assembly to three terms, while state senators and other state officers will be confined to two terms. The voters' overall message, sums up Larry Berg, a political scientist at the University of Southern California, was bitter and crotchety: "We don't trust...
...forswear such tactics, negative campaigning is here to stay, in part because it is easier to tear down an opponent's reputation than to take strong positions on controversial issues. "If there hadn't been negative campaigning, no one would have had anything to talk about," says political scientist Paul Green in Chicago. "Politics is a giant minute waltz...
Meanwhile, Back Home. In addition, incumbents could take advantage of the old saw that "all politics is local." "It's the self-preservation instinct at work," says political scientist Greg Thielemann of the University of Texas at Dallas. "Pork-barreling in our direction is O.K." Ironically, a general anti-Washington feeling can work to an incumbent's advantage. The more people distrust the yahoos in Congress, the more inclined they are to cling to "their guy" as their one defender against congressional tomfoolery...
...Paul Watanabe, UMass/Boston political scientist: "You've got the usual party affiliations blurred beyond recognition... It screws up all the usual calculations."--Nov. 5 in the Boston Herald...
...doubt that he is a Black scientist who has distinguished himself," said Dunster resident Leon L. Lai '91, "but the fact is that since being appointed, the man has acted extremely irresponsibly towards the major medical issues facing the country...