Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrat], there would have been six candidates, which would have split the vote," he said. "Thompson would have walked to the election...
...awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week, it ended a feud that threatened not only to split the party but also to scuttle Democrats' chances of keeping the seat of retiring Senator Bennett Johnston. A Landrieu win is a crucial part of any scenario in which the Democrats retake the Senate...
Equally important, the race tests the party's ability to bridge its racial divisions in the South. Louisiana Democrats, like others in the region, have split into two camps: Landrieu's largely white moderate wing and Fields' predominantly black liberals. Landrieu, a former state treasurer and political moderate--pro-choice but, like Bob Dole, in favor of a capital-gains tax cut--ran afoul of her party's liberals last year when she and Fields were locked in a bitter gubernatorial primary. Fields backers say it was racially insensitive of her to run ads saying she was more electable than...
...poll shows President Clinton at 52 percent, Dole at 35 percent and Perot at 6 percent. Dole has spent the last two days canvassing the South, an area that has been solidly Republican but where Clinton is leading in many states. The Dole campaign, which worries that Perot will split the anti-Clinton vote, felt Perot's withdrawal could tip the scales their way in key battleground states such as Texas and Florida. But polls show Perot supporters back Clinton in similar proportions to the general electorate. -- Josh Dubow
Adam Green is the split-personality Capt'n Neato-Man, who switches personae from mama's boy to bully to sexy, self-assured superhero in the three-way tug-of-war over "Horatio." At the heart of the story is the question, "Will Larry agree to give up his identity and become 'Horatio'?" Towards the end, the script dips into banality, pitting Larry against the Cap'n in the worn-out opposition between the "Get a real life" and "Live your dream" schools of thought. Overall, however, great lines ("You can't have sex without love!" "What are you, kidding...