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Michael Capuano, mayor of Somerville and Democratic nominee for the 8th District's Congressional seat, exhibited his brash, in-your-face politics and fierce commitment to constituents last night in a speech to about 50 undergraduates in Boylston Hall's Ticknor Lounge...
Capuano is coming off a hard-fought primary election, with more than 10 candidates vying for the seat formerly held by John F. Kennedy '40 and recently relinquished by Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton). Given the Democratic Party's lock on the seat in past decades, Capuano is virtually assured...
Unlike most of the other speakers, whose addresses were punctuated by applause, Seymour returned to her seat amid silence and a few scattered snorts...
...term, the gruff, perpetually embattled New Yorker, who barely squeaked past a weak Democratic challenger six years ago, is considered one of the G.O.P.'s two most vulnerable Senators (Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina is the other). If the Democrats can beat them, it would help avoid a 60-seat G.O.P. majority and hold down the number of hostile votes in what may become Clinton's impeachment jury. But for the President, the New York race is personal. As chairman of the Senate Whitewater hearings in 1995 and '96, D'Amato said he wanted "every child in America to know...
...state-specific issues. "This is clearly an 'all politics is local' kind of election," said GOP campaign boss Senator Mitch McConnell. "I never did believe it was a referendum on Bill Clinton," added Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.). Linder and other party luminaries expect a 10-to-15-seat Republican gain in the House next Tuesday. Anything less than that, and Clinton will be able to claim he's bridged another divide -- whether or not his eleventh-hour stump-speech schtick had anything to do with...