Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year incumbent is facing the biggest challenge of his electoral career. He's not scared of leading Republican opponent W. Mitt Romney's campaign treasure chest and sizable constituency, but rather because of a growing sentiment in his own constituency: all good things must come...
Barry rarely taps that polarizing sentiment explicitly, but he has focused his campaign on the people he calls "the least, the last and the lost." In 1978 he won his first mayoral election with substantial backing from the city's white minority (blacks make up two-thirds of Washington's 577,000 residents). That support has vanished: a recent survey shows Barry polling | just 1% of the white vote. Many middle- and upper-income blacks have also abandoned Barry, which means that to win, he will have to rely on heavy turnout among lower-income blacks. To add to that...
...boost the President's meager chances of carrying Florida in 1996, whatever he does. But a foundation- spurred surge against Democrats could cost Florida Governor Lawton Chiles his job in November. Also, generosity toward Cubans seeking to enter the U.S. would put Clinton at odds with a powerful sentiment against illegal immigration that is gaining strength in key states like Texas and California...
Clinton enjoyed a certain amount of maneuvering room: there is no significant sentiment in Congress to open up immigration or lift the trade embargo on Cuba. "The solution is not for 100,000 Cubans to come to the U.S.," says New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, "but for one man to leave Cuba, and that is Fidel Castro." While some angry Cuban Americans took to the streets of Miami shouting, "Down with Clinton!" exile leaders like Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, lobbied the White House to keep up the pressure. The truth is that even...
...N.A.A.C.P. meeting where Chavis was fired, says it's possible that the Saturday voice vote violated the organization's constitution. However, there's no shortage of bad feelings toward Chavis. It was clear that most members voted against him. "I'm amazed that in the face of such overwhelming sentiment against him, he's calling attention to himself," says Monroe...