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...One-term incumbent Representative Alice Wolf, with 20 years of participation in public politics, faced off against youthful Anthony Gallucio, the current vicemayor of Cambridge, in a debate that followed the first by 15 minutes...
Along with Schoen's partner, Mark Penn, these men would help Clinton resuscitate his lifeless presidency--engineering the re-election of a man who looked for all the world like a one-term wonder, a political afterthought. The Republican midterm landslide a few months before had depressed the President, and for good reason. White House polling showed that voters gave him especially low marks for "effectiveness" and "decisiveness"--two hallmarks of presidential leadership. Clinton's approval rating was in the 40s; he trailed Dole in the presidential horse race by 15 percentage points. Voters associated Clinton with three principal issues...
Cashion, with plenty of campaign experience, is poised to take a shot at one-term incumbent Richard Burr. A sign of his political savvy, he boasts that he is a small businessman--as part owner of a nursing home--attuned to average people's concerns and points to the day care he provides to mothers on his payroll...
...After one-term incumbent Wes Cooley withdrew from this race amid controversy over his past, Smith, who gave up the seat in 1994, was wooed back to electoral politics by an offer from Newt Gingrich to chair the House Agriculture Committee. A former rancher, Smith is a conservative westerner who wants endangered-species laws loosened and federal land opened to more development...
...hard to recall now, but back then, a year after the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress, Clinton seemed likely to join the long list of one-term Presidents. He had become an object of derision, a chubby, drawling, waffling figure of fun. He had already set in place the single policy most responsible for his ultimate re-election--the deficit-reduction measures that gained the infant Administration credibility with the financial markets, which in turn helped the economy purr along. But his attempt to reform the nation's health-care system had split the country and overshadowed everything else, allowing...