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...commission oversees all elections, administers the census, and is currently directing the transition to computerized ballot-counting...
Davis is a new Congressman in a district created after the 1990 census. Like his constituents, he is moderate: pro-choice and for a semiautomatic-weapons ban. And like his Republican brethren, he opposes raising taxes to balance the budget. He is also one of only a few freshmen to be made chairman of a subcommittee, one overseeing the District of Columbia...
West Virginia is a poor state. At its most prosperous, coal was king. But as machines replaced miners, and the unemployed couldn't find work, families left the state in droves. So many fled that after the 1990 Census, West Virginia lost a congressional district, leaving only three. Though the state economy is slowly rebuilding, the electorate remains solidly Democratic, testament to the strength of the party's lower-class and labor-class roots: its voters haven't elected a Republican Senator since 1956 or a Republican Congressman since...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole's campaign took another hit Thursday when government figures showed that Americans' real income increased in 1995 for the first time in six years. The Census Bureau also found that the percentage of Americans living in poverty in 1995 fell from 14.5 percent to 13.8 percent. "Today it is clear that more and more of our people are sharing in that prosperity," said a jubilant President Clinton. "We are growing -->