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...influx of Hispanics, mostly from Mexico, is concentrated in California (which has 34%), Texas (21%), New York (10%) and Florida (8%). Besides holding a potentially pivotal vote in close elections in those states, Hispanics are disproportionately young and thus constitute a large share of students in many school systems. At this rate, Hispanics could overtake blacks (30 million) as the largest U.S. minority...
...well-to-do retirees still enjoy federal largesse, as do oil companies and people earning more than $200,000 (whose income is taxed at a 28% marginal rate, while a working couple with a taxable income of $71,900 pays 33%). Those who gain from such Government generosity vote -- and contribute money -- in disproportionately high numbers and are the heart of the Republican electoral coalition. As long as the middle class has remained relatively unaffected by Washington's retreat, the Republican strategy has paid off handsomely, most recently in Bush's 1988 election and his extraordinary 75% current approval rating...
...polls quickly showed that more than 60% of Floridians opposed further restrictions and that only 24% would vote for Martinez again. Even members of his own party, worried that an antiabortion label would hurt Republicans among suburban and women voters, began denouncing the special session as a costly waste of time. Just days before the session opened, Florida's supreme court ruled that abortion was protected by the state constitution, which contains a right-to-privacy clause approved by the voters in 1980. The court went on to overturn a state law requiring that parents be notified when their teenage...
...reason to retrench from the activist course charted by former Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89. They urged the council to address fewer divisive issues and focus more on adminstrative tasks like planning social events and installing frozen yogurt machines in the dining halls. None of these people got my vote...
...Senate's 67-31 vote provided final congressional passage of a spending bill including the key provision on abortion, which the House approved in a surprise vote last week. The Senate previously had approved broadening federal funding for abortions, and its last vote was needed to send the bill to the White House...