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Blumenauer's record on transportation and environmental issues in Oregon helped him win Ron Wyden's House seat when Wyden replaced Bob Packwood in the Senate this year. Blumenauer helped install Portland's light-rail system, launch curbside recycling and take cars away from drunk drivers. He also opposes salvage logging. With a pragmatic and independent streak, he enjoys an added advantage in this Democratic district...
...exclusive section of Dunthorpe, but the working-class and middle-class neighborhoods in the rest of the district are staunchly Democratic. And though he vows to protect Medicare, his platform of budget cuts may rattle the strong senior-citizen vote that helped keep Democrat Ron Wyden in this seat for 15 years...
...this seat from Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky by emphasizing her 1993 vote for the Clinton budget--a betrayal in this affluent Republican district. Now Fox faces Joe Hoeffel, who accuses him of being a Gingrich loyalist. In what is considered a bellwether race, party leaders are paying special attention to this hotly contested campaign...
Peterson runs in a traditionally Republican district for a seat being vacated by nine-term G.O.P. incumbent Bill Clinger. The son of a steel worker, Peterson opened a grocery store with his brother in 1958 and maintained it until 1984, when he decided to become a politician. He also wants lower taxes and a balanced budget. And with the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Peterson is a solid candidate...
Though the Eighth District House seat has been held by Democrats for 14 of the past 20 years, the trend hasn't hindered the two-term Greenwood. He won 66% of the vote in 1994 (against the same opponent as this year). Greenwood is a social moderate, supporting abortion rights and gun control--but a fiscal conservative, strongly opposing the Clinton Administration's economic policies...