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October 4, 1998
AMERICA MAY be a two-party country, but in Baltimore one would never know it. The last time a Republican was elected in the city was in 1954, when Harry Cole (now a retired judge) was elected to the Maryland Senate. (The City Council lost its last Republican in 1931.)The Cole victory heralded the end of white machine control of west side politics. But Democrats regrouped and four years later Mr. Cole was defeated. Today, registered Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 9-1.Nowhere is this Democratic hegemony more evident than at the city courthouse.
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By William F. Zorzi Jr. | November 11, 1997
EVERYONE apparently was a winner in last week's local elections.The spin-meisters of the Democratic and Republican parties declared victory in Tuesday's voting in Frederick and Annapolis -- where results were mixed.But as both parties began shameless posturing for next year's statewide elections, everyone patted themselves on the back.In Frederick, Republican Mayor James S. Grimes solidly defeated Democratic challenger Frances G. Baker with 54 percent of the vote, while in Annapolis, Republican Dean L. Johnson walked to easy victory over Democrat Dennis M. Callahan, taking 55 percent.
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By Susan Baer | October 4, 1995
WASHINGTON -- Colin L. Powell believes it would be difficult.Newt Gingrich says it would be a disaster.Ross Perot thinks it would be a world-class success.Politicians and historians used to debate whether a presidential candidate running as an independent could win. Now, they are mulling whether an independent candidate, having won the presidency, could govern the nation.That the topic is being debated at all testifies that, perhaps more than at any other time in the last half-century, the notion of an independent or third-party president seems, if not probable, at least possible.
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By Stanley B. Greenberg | March 10, 1995
Washington -- THESE ARE heady days in the House.They are no less heady for Republican theorists and consultants, who are working feverishly to fabricate a mandate for all the legislative activity by attempting to elevate the 1994 election and give it meaning.That rush to judgment in the House, they argue, is not mere politics but a contract steeped in all the legitimacy of a popular conservative upheaval.Irving Kristol, co-editor of The Public Interest, calls what Speaker Newt Gingrich is doing "revolutionary."
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By John W. Frece | September 13, 1994
The television ads have had their chance to work, the mailboxes are crammed with political fliers, and the debates are over.What happens next is up to Maryland's voters.Beginning at 7 o'clock this morning, voters will begin casting primary election ballots at 1,702 polling places across the state, choosing from among 2,800 Democratic and Republican candidates for almost every elective office from the courthouse to the State House. Polls close at 8 p.m.During those 13 hours, Democrats and Republicans will pick their respective nominees to succeed Gov. William Donald Schaefer, and to run for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Paul S. Sarbanes has held for 18 years and wants to hold for six more.
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By Los Angeles Times | May 25, 1994
WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers have stepped up pressure on Democrats to schedule congressional hearings into the Whitewater affair, as special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. wound down the initial phase of his investigation of President Clinton's role in the failed Arkansas land venture.Ending what had been the Clinton administration's first extended respite from GOP criticism over Whitewater, more than 90 House Republicans led by Rep. John T. Doolittle, R-Calif., introduced a resolution yesterday calling for concurrent hearings by five congressional committees.
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By John A. Morris | August 12, 1994
Several of the county's leading environmental and social activists endorsed Democrat Theodore Sophocleus for county executive yesterday.The activists, who have formed a political action committee, said they will support Mr. Sophocleus, a state delegate and former county councilman from Linthicum, with money and volunteers.Mary Rosso, chairwoman for Anne Arundel Voters for Environmental Justice, said Mr. Sophocleus, the Democratic nominee for executive four years ago, expressed the clearest support for the group's goals and was considered the most "electable" of the six Democratic and Republican candidates.
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By Gilbert A. Lewthwaite and Karen Hosler | November 16, 1993
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton engaged in fierce "hand-to-hand combat" with opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement yesterday for the support of the few dozen lawmakers whose votes will decide the fate of the controversial pact tomorrow.As both Democratic and Republican members of Congress shuttled in and out of the White House for some last-minute back-slapping and arm-twisting, Mr. Clinton's aides expressed increasing confidence that he would win the crucial ballot in the House of Representatives tomorrow evening.
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By Karen Hosler | February 18, 1993
WASHINGTON -- Despite all their bravado last night, it's a good bet that most Democrats in Congress woke up this morning with the cold sweats.Their president has asked them to approve huge tax increases and cut popular programs in a quest for economic growth and deficit reduction -- with no guarantee that the plan will work.Phone calls from home districts already suggest that if the legislators heed him they are likely to be punished at the polls. Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, for instance, received 475 calls yesterday, and 90 percent of the callers were opposed to tax increases.
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By Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover | August 22, 1992
HOUSTON -- One sign on the floor of the Republican National Convention here, copied on T-shirts worn by delegates, told much about the mood of many of them. It said: "I Don't Believe the Liberal Press." Another was even more pointed: "Lynch the Liberal Media Elite."Variations on the same sentiments were heard repeatedly from speakers and Republicans interviewed on television, including first lady Barbara Bush, who complained that the Republican Party, President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle all were getting a raw deal from the Fourth Estate.