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Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, saw his re-election hopes thwarted last week by a covert operation he did not predict and could not prevent. On the Sunday before the election, the conservative Christian Coalition distributed thousands of "voter guides" throughout Glickman's congressional district. The pamphlets were slipped onto car windshields in church parking lots; some pastors allowed the guides to be distributed inside their churches. The guides, designed to appear objective and distributed close to the election so Glickman couldn't effectively protest them, gave the Congressman negative ratings...
...John McDonough, co-chair of the state House of Representatives' Committee on Election Laws, told The Boston Globe Tuesday that "mass confusion" resulted from voter ignorance of the ballot questions...
...Grossman, who is counsel to Greater Boston Legal Services, which is working pro bono. "And even if the law was constitutional, it wasn't followed," he added, because of the irregularities. Grossman said some wards in Brookline had no summaries available, and cited a Herald report of a Dorchester voter who was given a Herald editorial in place of the legal summary of the questions...
...PATIENT VOTERS REJECT DEMS: While the Republicans quickly interpreted theelection resultsas a vote of no-confidence on President Clinton's policies, a new TIME/CNN poll suggests it was not so simple. The poll -- conducted just after theelection(November 9-10) -- reveals some surprises in voter sentiment...
...poll also shows that even though voters handed over the House and the Senate to the GOP, only 18 percent said the election results were a mandate for Republican policies. Sixty percent, however, said that it was a rejection of Democratic programs. And 50 percent said that the results reflected voter disapproval of President Clinton's handling...