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...BRUGGERE (D) SENATE (OPEN SEAT...
GORDON SMITH (R) SENATE (OPEN SEAT...
Smith suffered a narrow loss in a January special election to fill the vacant Senate seat of Bob Packwood, who left under a cloud of scandal. In this bitter race, Smith has accused Tom Bruggere of hiring a San Francisco private-investigation firm to "dig dirt." Smith has tempered some of his more conservative positions for this race, but in a state that has elected moderate Senators for the past 30 years, the winner here should still be a moderating influence on Capitol Hill...
Dugan is tough on crime, but opposes what he calls G.O.P. extremism and cuts in Medicare and education, which he calls a preventive measure against youth crime. This seat was considered ripe for Democratic picking when G.O.P. incumbent Wes Cooley ran into trouble this fall. Then came Bob Smith, a tougher candidate than Cooley ever would have been...
After one-term incumbent Wes Cooley withdrew from this race amid controversy over his past, Smith, who gave up the seat in 1994, was wooed back to electoral politics by an offer from Newt Gingrich to chair the House Agriculture Committee. A former rancher, Smith is a conservative westerner who wants endangered-species laws loosened and federal land opened to more development...