Word: unpopularly
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...Strategists recognize that in an environment of severe public disenchantment with Congress, most challengers' dominant strategies are to vilify Washington's system and all those associated with it. Calls for reform from both incumbents and challengers, in comparison, sound weak and identify the candidate too much with legitimizing an unpopular and undesirable institution...
Maggie L. Carter '96, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats, said she admired Roosevelt's courage in stating somewhat unpopular positions...
Other council members criticize Liston's volte-face on unpopular beliefs. For instance, while he pushed for last year's $10 term-bill fee hike, this year he wants it repealed...
...even under these difficult circumstances, it's hard to understand the reasoning behind a decision by gubernatorial candidate and state Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) to take an unpopular stand on one of the year's hottest election issues...
...Montana, where politicians often dress like lumberjacks, Republican Senator Conrad Burns derides his Democratic challenger as "Bill Clinton in a plaid shirt." In a North Carolina congressional race, the Republican candidate is airing videotape of his Democratic rival jogging with the unpopular President, as a voice-over intones, "Look who Martin Lancaster is running around with in Washington!" Other TV ads for Republicans across the country are using special effects to morph their Democratic opponents' faces into the visage of President Clinton -- who must wonder why, if he has all these clones on Capitol Hill, he can't pass...