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...denouncing Republicans for a variety of sins, above all attempting to reduce projected Medicare spending $270 billion. The union federation's efforts were instrumental in defeating sophomore Blute in Massachusetts and several G.O.P. freshmen, including David Funderburk, a disciple of Senator Jesse Helms (who held his own seat) in North Carolina. In other districts, however, AFL-CIO spending backfired by becoming a major issue. The union federation's No. 1 target in the whole country was Arizona's John David Hayworth Jr., who is outsize in other ways also (he is 6 ft. 5 in. and 285 lb., with...
Frequently, where Democrats won, they succeeded by presenting themselves as politicians who had learned a lesson and were less ambitious to extend government than before 1994. In a North Carolina district adjoining Funderburk's, Democrat David Price won back the House seat he had lost in 1994 largely by making that pitch. Noting that so-called control of the House is a matter of a few votes, Price said, "both parties have now been burned by overreacting. People are hungry for more practical and less ideological leadership. What that should mean is that whatever party is in control will have...
...trying to decide who was to fill the seat of retiring Senator Sam Nunn, Georgia voters were faced with a choice between a man who resembled Bob Dole and a man whose past was reminiscent of Bob Dole's. In Max Cleland they chose the latter, a Vietnam War hero who lost two legs and an arm in a grenade explosion and then rebuilt his life through public service. A spokesman for Republican loser Guy Millner complained during the campaign that Cleland, 54, was "running on biography." But a remarkable biography it is: a triple amputee who overcame depression...
...recent debate between Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone and Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican he upset six years ago, said she needed "a whip and a chair" to keep the pair apart as they argued over federal farm policy. Indeed, the two staged a ferocious fight for the Minnesota Senate seat. In the end, former political science professor Wellstone proved that his '90 election was no fluke, and also that there is a place in the Senate for an old-fashioned liberal. He was the only incumbent Senator up for re-election who voted against the welfare-reform bill, thus earning...
...take a holiday vacation on the cheap: Christmas albums. This year's crop of holiday-themed CDs includes musical excursions to Africa, Ireland and Latin America; they won't earn you frequent-flyer miles, but you won't have to deal with that knee-crushing idiot who keeps his seat back for the entire six-hour flight to Buenos Aires. World Christmas (Metro Blue) features artists from a number of time zones, including Cape Verdean vocalist Cesaria Evora. There's also a Celtic Christmas II (Windham Hill); A Brasilian Christmas (Astor Place); and Festival of Light (Six Degrees...