Word: coleman
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Even though most oddsmakers have called California's Senate race in favor of Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has temporarily halted the count of 500,000 absentee ballots that theoretically could throw the race to GOP challenger Michael Huffington. Judge Coleman Swart said he ordered the pause to try to corroborate a Republican radio talk show host's allegations that undocumented aliens and minors had sent in fraudulent ballots. Meanwhile in Maryland, the gubernatorial contest between Democrat Parris Glendening and Republican Ellen Sauerbrey is down to a snail's-pace absentee ballot count...
...North's embarrassments, he is in a dead heat in public polls with Robb going into the final week of the campaign. North has been effective in linking his Democratic opponent to President Clinton, whose ratings are low in Virginia. North can also thank the independent candidacy of Marshall Coleman, a Republican opposed to him who received 17% in the latest poll. Coleman has been siphoning support that would have gone to Robb...
...incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb.ROBB 37 (Fairfax Journal) 38 (VCU)NORTH 36 36BARRETT: "North has only 35 to 37 percent hard-core support, that support appears to be impregnable. They're just not paying attention to the salvos being fired at him." The other irony: the GOP lured independent Marshall Coleman into the race to stop the loose-cannon North, but Coleman appears to be siphoning more votes off Robb...
North's careful response suggests he may be pulling his punches since he has a slight edge over incumbent democrat Chuck Robb. New FEC figures say he's got a $17 million war chest -- four times that of Robb and nearly 30 times independent Marshall Coleman...
...Bennington president, Elizabeth Coleman, is overhauling the college's teaching program by focusing on interdisciplinary studies, destroying all divisions (the Bennington term for departments) and hiring only "teacher-practitioners" --poets who teach poetry, for instance...