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In 1994 Furse beat Bill Witt by only 301 votes, giving the G.O.P. high hopes for victory this time around. A pro-choice and pro-environment liberal who would balance the budget in part by cutting Pentagon funding, Furse has earned a 100% rating from the American Federation of Teachers...
Taking office in 1994, the conservative Bunn was antiabortion, supported term limits and campaign-finance reform. But he refused to sign the Contract with America because it would cut off aid to unwed mothers under 18, which he believes would encourage abortion. He earned only a 12% rating from the...
The last Democrat Lancaster County elected to Congress was James Buchanan, in 1828. This doesn't seem to bother Blaine, who has an eclectic political vision. He is, for example, able to find socioeconomic reasons for environmental protection and see conservation as an antidote to urban ills like crime and...
Mainstream Democrat Long served as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation and opposes reductions in the epa budget. In this race, he has had the unusual difficulty of being snubbed by high-profile members of his own party--Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos ignored Long at a state fund...
Nethercutt will go down in history as the giant slayer of the Republican revolution--the man who unseated Tom Foley, the first House Speaker in 132 years to lose an election. Rewarded with a seat on the Appropriations Committee, he has voted conservatively and authored a term-limits amendment. But...