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...past 12 years had been a time of high living on the backs of the working guy -- one defeat for labor after another -- so it was time to let labor win one. Congress would defeat NAFTA, he said. The President of Mexico would lose his job. They'd elect a new one, and in a year or two Canada, Mexico and the U.S. would negotiate another NAFTA that Congress would pass...
...burden even for some candidates who were not in office but seemed like political insiders. In the third nationally spotlighted race, for Governor of Virginia, former state attorney general Mary Sue Terry at one point held a 29-point lead in some polls over Republican George Allen. But by Election Day, Allen had convinced many voters that Terry's Democrats were treating the Governor's mansion as a virtual hereditary monarchy; he won by a lopsided 17 points to complete one of the most amazing turnarounds ever. In a less noticed but important contest, Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit...
...crack-down-hard approach is usually a big vote getter. It helped mightily to elect Giuliani and Allen, and Washington State voters approved a "three strikes and you're out" law that mandates life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of a third violent felony. Yet would-be tough guys can lose too. John Derus based his campaign for mayor of Minneapolis entirely on a law-and-order appeal but was swamped by Sayles Belton, who pledged an increase in social services...
Local ministers interviewed yesterday expressed outrage at allegations that New Jersey's Republican Governor-Elect Christine Todd Whitman paid Black ministers to refrain from urging their congregations to vote for her opponent...
...council will elect the new mayor when itassumes office on January...