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After his re-election in 1994, by only 471 votes, McHale is on everyone's list of vulnerable incumbents. He is, however, better prepared this time--his last challenger outspent him by $100,000--and hopes to gain broad support from his voting record, his reputation as a deficit cutter and his incumbency...
McLeod lost big to James Clyburn in 1994, but was also heavily outspent. He wants creationism taught in schools and hopes his social conservatism attracts religious blacks as well as whites in the Sixth. Were he to win, he would be one of Congress's strictest constitutionalists, advocating a drastic contraction of the Federal Government, including elimination of federal income and inheritance taxes in favor of a consumption...
Bentsen, the nephew of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen, won his seat in 1994 despite being outspent five to one. A moderate, labeled "White House potential" by an influential Capitol Hill publication, Bentsen devoted much of his first term to balancing the budget, achieved by cutting discretionary spending and holding the line on taxes...
Calling himself a Reagan Republican, multimillionaire Cannon says he's running in part because the g.o.p. majority in Congress gives him a chance to help reduce taxes, cut the national debt and restore power to the states. He outspent his opponent in the primary more than 250% and was doing much the same to Bill Orton in the general election...
...want to manage our wildlife--professionals or people with a hidden agenda?" asserts Don Clower, chairman of Idaho's Sportsmen's Heritage Defense Fund. In Idaho, foes of the bear proposition count the Governor and nearly all state legislators on their side, and initiative backers complain they are being outspent 4 to 1. In Michigan as in Idaho, opponents contend that abolishing spring hunting, baiting and hounding would lead to an onslaught of bear problems and thwart hunters...