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When these two men talk about the issues in this race, they disagree more than they differ. They both favor balancing the budget by 2002, slowing the growth of Medicare, aiming tax cuts at families, allowing for more choice in education, pushing for tougher criminal penalties, promoting freer trade, spending millions on antimissile defense research, and talking about campaign-finance reform but not doing anything about it. The differences are essentially of degree or speed or enthusiasm. Their most passionate fights are over such issues as late-term abortion, which disturb many people but affect very...
...district in the nation has more people over 65 than the 22nd, and Social Security and Medicare are hot-button issues here. Cooper stresses his commitment to both programs. To fight crime, another important topic for seniors, he wants more street-patrolling police and tougher gun-control laws...
Blankenbaker is a proponent of free markets and a balanced-budget amendment. Convinced that Clinton has drifted away from the war on drugs, she advocates pre-trial detention laws, tougher sentencing and fewer death-row appeals. Blankenbaker has also benefited from contributions by women supporting her pro-choice, moderate candidacy...
...must cobble votes from the more moderate sectors of both parties to win in November. While adding her legislative voice to the chorus calling for lower taxes, a balanced budget and the preservation of Medicare, she has spent a career speaking out for the voiceless--fighting for tougher child-support laws and protection for battered women and children...
Raymond thought he had lost the primary until he learned that a clerical error had been made and he had, in fact, won. He brings to the general election an agenda of tax breaks for churches and charities, and tougher sentences for drug kingpins and handgun crimes...