Word: unseats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more surprising victory was scored in Minnesota by Carleton College political science professor and veteran community organizer Paul Wellstone over Republican incumbent Senator Rudy Boschwitz. The only candidate to unseat a Senator, Wellstone made the rejection of special-interest politics--as exemplified by Boschwitz's PAC money-lined campaign coffers--a major theme of his campaign...
Rappaport must be shaking his head in amazement. Until a few weeks ago, his chances to unseat Kerry looked promising. He had steamrolled over his opponent in the GOP primary, Dan Daly, by scooping close to $2 million out of his personal savings. And entering the general race, Rappaport appeared to be in a virtual deadlock with Kerry, according to several polls...
...Massachusetts gubernatorial race may seem a bit vicious, but AIDS-activists this weekend painted a picture of an even more controversial race--Harvey Gantt's attempt to unseat long-time North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms...
Thus character has become the central issue in Minnesota, where Republican Jon Grunseth is trying to unseat Democratic Governor Rudy Perpich. Earlier this month, two women came forth with affidavits charging that Grunseth had encouraged them to remove their bathing suits and skinny-dip with him at his backyard pool at a July Fourth party in 1981. The women were 13 and 14 at the time. Insisting that the event never occurred, Grunseth called Perpich a "supreme liar" for denying that he had put the women up to making the charge...
...while glitzier campaign issues have cast a long shadow in Rappaport's fight to unseat Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry, the reform plan has caught the eyes of education experts, who remain deeply divided on its prospects for success...