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...would proudly lay claim to coming from a state with these admirable qualities. However, I stand back now and view the recent events of the midterm elections and wonder how great my state is. I wonder how great it is because of the 18 percent margin of voters who passed Proposition 187 last Tuesday, November...
Voting in the midterm elections was still a few days away, but Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island was already feeling lonesome for the old gang. Surveying the voluntary departures of such Senate moderates as Minnesota's David Durenberger and Missouri's John Danforth as well as worrying about the loss of several others on Tuesday, a mournful Chafee said, "I'd like to say we're going to have some unforeseen support, but I must say, the middle is shrinking...
...were the harsh, bridge-burning proclamations that rang across the country as the midterm campaigns went down to the wire. In fact the 11th-hour tactics -- as well as their implication for the next Congress -- seemed destined only to make voters angrier. On Halloween, Bill Clinton launched an eight-day, scare-out-the-vote tour, arguing that the Republicans would do everything from closing Yellowstone National Park to slowing racial progress. His favorite gambit was to claim at nearly every stop that Republicans wanted to cut the benefits of Social Security recipients by $2,000 each. However improbable -- and hypocritical...
...attributed to the middle class -- once the kingdom of the Democrats -- switching allegiances, according to Tuesday exit poll data released today. More than half the voters in the $30,000 to $50,000 income bracket sided with the GOP this year, up sharply from 43 percent in the 1990 midterm elections. Another GOP voter marker: education: Exit polls show that only those without a high school diploma and those with postgraduate degrees were firmly Democratic. The vast middle ground of voters with high school or college degrees voted Republican. Baby boomers, a majority of whom have eschewed...
With a syllogism possible only in the logic of politics,Rep. Newt Gingrich(R-Ga.) linked the Smith case to the midterm elections this weekend: "I think the mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change," Gingrich said Saturday on a campaign swing through Georgia. "I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican. That's the message for the last three days."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...