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...network's evening newscast has faced similar--if less momentous--choices night after night for the past several months, and has come down, more often than not, on the opposite side: bypassing or downplaying traditional Washington stories in favor of news, trends and features from the heartland--plus a liberal dose of O.J. The strategy has worked: the NBC Nightly News has been No. 1 in the ratings for six straight weeks (with one tie), inching ahead of the longtime leader, ABC's World News Tonight...
...even be at this week's Inauguration. The $150 cost of an Inaugural Ball ticket is too steep, he says, and he would have to miss his 12-year-old daughter's tryout for the Arkansas select soccer team. How's that for common sense from the heartland...
...African American, this former heartland Republican district has changed dramatically over the years. Naughton, however, who calls himself a Reagan Democrat, believes that fighting for tax relief, opposing abortion and giving parents a chance to send their children to private school will strike an appealing chord with the predominantly working-class people of the First...
...strong advocate of the study and treatment of Gulf War syndrome and consistently supports higher Pentagon budgets--Citadel alumni named Buyer their 1995 Man of the Year. Outside his military focus, he is a conservative who supports most of the Contract with America, a plus in this Hoosier Heartland...
...started as cotton farmer in Texas, became a powerful boll weevil in Washington--a Democrat who supported Reagan's budget and tax cuts--and now Stenholm's conservatism has earned him the label blue dog. Nevertheless, this veteran Democrat has served his heartland district since 1978 with a mission to pull his party back to the center. In the process he has earned the respect of colleagues on both sides of the aisle--one reason he is expected to be returned to Washington...