Word: voter
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...executive director of the Christian Coalition, Reed is master of a much more powerful and effective machine than is almost any presidential candidate. By mobilizing eager volunteers down to the precinct (and local church) level and handing out 33 million voter guides -- often in church pews -- prior to last November's election, the Coalition is credited with providing the winning margin for perhaps half the Republicans' 52-seat gain in the House of Representatives and a sizable portion of their nine-seat pickup in the Senate. As a result, Ralph Reed is the man to see among Republican lawmakers...
Koocher says Thompson won by a very slim margin in the 1980 vote, which had a voter turnout of only eight percent. "Alvin's defeat of Saundra was a totally unexpected victory, a major upset," Koocher says. "Alvin understands the principle to get along, go along and pay your dues. Alvin certainly paid his dues...
...organization has also conducted voter drives to register Haitian immigrants and is planning an AIDS outreach trip to Haiti next year, Aime said...
Kennedy, the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy '48, said because of the low voter participation of young people, programs which are geared toward them are easy targets for Republicans looking to cut items from the federal budget...
...part of a larger movement that has made the current Congress the first since Reconstruction in which Republicans hold a majority of the 125 House seats that span the old Confederacy. Deal is also emblematic of the loss to the Democratic Party of the much sought after white-male voter. Senator Sam Nunn is the only white Democrat left in Georgia's congressional delegation, and friends say he is thinking seriously of retiring next year. Concludes Merle Black of Emory University: "The South is moving toward having a white Republican Party and a black, and very small, Democratic Party...