Word: sixths
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...Sixth District, culturally diverse and largely middle class, often mirrors national political trends. A mainstream small-government Republican, Corodemus says four-term incumbent Pallone has not written or sponsored enough legislation in his House career. To do well here, Corodemus will have to capture the same moderate voters Republicans need nationwide...
Incumbent Domenici, who once pitched for the Albuquerque Dukes, won his past two elections with 72% and 73% of the vote, and is favored to win his sixth term just as handily. In the Senate he has made his name as a deficit hawk, sitting on his powerful perch as chairman of the Budget Committee, and he clashes even with fellow Republicans when their proposals to cut taxes--especially the capital-gains tax--would stand in the way of a balanced budget...
...heat for his hard line against illegal aliens. Now that the state budget is straining under the enormous costs of their education, health care, welfare and unemployment benefits, that tough talk has made his political reputation. His congressional proposals for strict immigration reform have made his sixth race for the House one of his easiest...
Hughes is a straight-arrow Republican in a district where that may be a liability: the countercultural Sixth, home to well-heeled nonconformists, has voted Democratic in the past two presidential elections. And with moderate Lynn Woolsey having proved herself a tough legislator, the conservative Hughes will be hard-pressed to find an opening here...
After three unsuccessful runs at the House, Strickland finally won in 1992--only to be unseated by Frank Cremeans in 1994. An unabashed liberal, Strickland advocates more spending on highways, education and programs for preventing drug and alcohol abuse, school dropouts and teenage pregnancy. Because his Sixth District is both working-class and poor, he may benefit by this year's apparent anti-Republican mood...