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Both candidates posted easy victories in their Sept. 15 primary races. Harshbarger defeated Patricia McGovern by a comfortable 20 percent margin while Cellucci beat Joseph D. Malone '76 by 16 percentage points...
...Crimson comeback effort was cut short when McDavitt scored her second goal of the game for the final two goal margin with 1:36 left...
...this question was an appropriate litmus test for Schroder's integrity or fitness for office, it may seem impressive that he could win by as wide a margin as he did--except for the fact that the new chancellor's necessary and sufficient selling point in Sunday's election was that he is not Helmut Kohl. Sixteen years is double the length of time any American president is allowed to serve (unless his predecessor resigns, of course) and was long enough to make people question whether or not democracy was still kicking in Germany...
...polls will come to an abrupt halt. And so the Speaker sits tight, sounding statesmanlike, careful not to overplay his hand. If the release of the videotape doesn't backfire this week, all he has to do is hang on through Election Day, betting that a bigger margin in the House next year will give him more leverage with the President's lawyers after November...
Wolf's work appeared to have paid off, as she attracted 54.7 percent of the electorate, 900 more votes than Galluccio. By comparison, in their 1996 match-up her margin of victory was 89 votes...