What the Dems Would Do
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They've waited 12 long years to reclaim the steering wheel. How the
party out of power would rule if they retake the House.
By Michael Isikoff and Holly Bailey
Newsweek
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - John Dingell likes to reminisce about the days
when Democrats ruled Capitol Hill. Back in the 1980s and early '90s,
the irascible Michigan congressman was chairman of the House Energy and
Commerce Committee, one of the most influential in the Capitol. Dingell
oversaw huge swaths of the U.S. economy, as well as the environment and
food and drug laws. At times the chairman seemed more prosecutor than
politician. He used his gavel to call dozens of hearings. He'd subpoena
high government officials-at the time, that often meant Republicans
who worked for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush-and grill them for
hours under the hot television lights. Dingell always insisted that
witnesses testify under oath, meaning anything less than honest answers
could be met with perjury charges. It was Dingell's oversight
subcommittee that uncovered the Pentagon's $600 toilet seats and
exposed corruption in government agencies. "We emptied the top
leadership of the EPA," Dingell recalls with obvious satisfaction. "We
put a large number of FDA people in jail."
The 'Bradley Effect'
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White voters often tell pollsters they support black candidates, but
they don't always follow through.
By Ellis Cose
Newsweek
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - Is Harold Ford Jr. really doing as well as the
polls suggest? Is he conceivably on his way to becoming the first black
Southern senator since Reconstruction? The answer may well be yes, but
Ford can hardly take that for granted. As black candidates reaching out
to largely white constituencies have discovered in the past, when it
comes to measuring political popularity there are lies, damned
lies-and polls, on which they rest their fate at their peril.
Are the Faithful Losing Faith?
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Two weeks till midterms, the NEWSWEEK poll shows Republicans in danger
of losing a big chunk of their base. And a growing consensus for a
bread-and-butter Democratic agenda.
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By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 10:52 a.m. ET Oct. 21, 2006
Oct. 21, 2006 - If the elections for Congress were held today,
according to the new NEWSWEEK poll, 60 percent of white Evangelicals
would support the Republican candidate in their district, compared to
just 31 percent who would back the Democrat. To the uninitiated, that
may sound like heartening news for Republicans in the autumn of their
discontent. But if you're a pundit, a pol, or a preacher, you know
better. White Evangelicals are a cornerstone of the GOP's base; in
2004, exit polls found Republicans carried white Evangelicals 3 to 1
over Democrats, winning 74 percent of their votes. In turn,
Evangelicals carried the GOP to victory. But with a little more than
two weeks before the crucial midterms, the Republican base may be
cracking
There Might Not Be a Tidal Wave
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The voters might want to throw the bums out, but not their bum.
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - In the waning October light, democrat Linda
Stender ambles from door to door in a middle-class neighborhood of
Cranford, N.J. Even two weeks before a competitive election in the
Seventh District, most people don't show much interest in meeting a
candidate for Congress. Gotta fix dinner, one says, after briefly
perusing a campaign flier. I'm not dressed right, claims another
through the
The Hillary Questions
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She has to take only the states that John Kerry took, and then one
more. (Or the states that Al Gore took, and the Supreme Court.)
By Anna Quindlen
Newsweek
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - Will she run? can she win? the fact that
virtually every American voter knows who the "she" is in those
oft-repeated sentences means that name recognition will not be a
problem if Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to try to become the first
woman president of the United States.
There's One Last Thing to Try
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This past August and September were the two deadliest months on record
for Iraqis, and October is set to exceed even those levels.
By Fareed Zakaria
Newsweek
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - American policy in iraq over the past two and a
half years has been a mixture of nation-building and counterinsurgency,
neither with much success. But the United States is now facing an even
more difficult task: ending a civil war. People in Washington have
decided to postpone any policy rethinking until the midterm elections
are done, because we don't want politics to interfere
George Bush's Last Campaign
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By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 12:42 a.m. ET Oct. 22, 2006
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - Backed into a corner, George W. Bush gets louder
and more deeply West Texas: a high-school football coach, down by 20
points at halftime, banging on the metal lockers for inspiration. He
thinks that even a trace of presidential doubt will embolden Democrats
at home and evildoers in Iraq. So here he was, at a not-oversubscribed
Washington fund-raiser, launching the last drive of his last campaign
with grim determination and warnings of apocalypse if Democrats take
Congress. "They are the party of cut and run," he said. "Victory in
Iraq is vital for the security of a generation of Americans who are
coming up. And so we will stay in Iraq! We will fight in Iraq! And we
will win in Iraq!"
The Path To Power
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Tennessee's Harold Ford Jr. is running from his party in one of the
must-win Senate races for the Democrats. His story-and the stakes on
Election Day.
By Jonathan Darman
Newsweek
Oct. 30, 2006 issue - The sun is just rising over Chattanooga when
Harold Ford Jr. begins to pray. A young African-American congressman
from Memphis, Ford is running as the Democratic candidate for Senate in
Tennessee. Here, in the shadow of Lookout Mountain, an audience of 300
has come out of the early-morning darkness into the historic Read House
hotel to hear Ford praise the Lord and lecture man. Dressed in dark
suits and hats fit for a Sunday service, they bow their heads and thank
a God who "even now has dipped us in fresh, anointing oil." They shout
Hallelujah as a soprano sings "Amazing Grace." And they cheer and clap
when Ford welcomes them, and the spirit of Jesus, into the room. "I
love Jesus, I can't help it," the congressman tells the crowd. "We
serve such a big God,"
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