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...different states consistently vote against abortion. On any given life issue, as many as 70 House Democrats will vote against abortion. According to a June 2002 Gallup poll, only 25 percent of Americans support the Democratic Party’s plank that abortion should be available on demand. The Senate??€™s refusal to bring the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act for a vote before the election brought opponents of abortion from both parties to the polls in droves. When most Democratic candidates support abortion, however, you can easily guess the results...
...died in the plane crash. The organizers intentionally kept the focus on Wellstone as a person rather than as a politician. But unfortunately, the service ultimately degenerated into partisan rhetoric; the mourners cheered Democrats and booed Republicans who had come to pay their respects to one of the Senate??€™s most dedicated public servants...
...organizers of the memorial could do nothing to prevent such outbursts; in fact, despite the number of politicians in the crowd—including more than half the Senate??€”only the victims’ close friends and family members actually spoke. Compared to Sen. Mel Carnahan’s memorial in 2000, where then-President Bill Clinton spoke, this memorial at the outset contained even fewer political overtones. The spirit shown at Wellstone’s memorial was a product of the grassroots crowd in attendance. It in no way tarnishes the senator’s memory...
Hoping to organize protest against the military action in Iraq and against Sen. John F. Kerry’s (D-Mass.) vote in favor of the Senate??€™s Iraq resolution earlier this month, Cambridge activist Randall C. Forsberg mounted a write-in senatorial campaign Wednesday...
...wish he’d run for senator in my state, New York. Both Sen. Charles E. Schumer and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, even though neither of them is running for office this year, displayed an amazing gutlessness when it came time to vote on the resolution transfering the Senate??€™s Constitution-given powers to declare war to the most ignorant and arrogant president we’ve seen in a while. Neither of them was really anywhere to be seen while more courageous senators (on both sides of the question and both sides of the aisle) aired...