Norm Coleman
Al Franken Is Starting to Look Like Ollie North
The 1994 midterm election is justly recalled as the strongest ever for the Republican Party. Bill Clinton, elected to the presidency two years earlier, had spent the first half of his term giving voters reason to regret the faith they’d placed in him. Independents felt let down, Republicans were openly hostile (and unusually unified in their opposition to him) and Democrats were just underwhelmed. On Election Day, the G.O.P. won just about everything there was to win – with one glaring exception.
That would be in Virginia, a state where – on paper – the G.O.P. had no excuse for losing that year’s Senate race. read more »
Blue-State G.O.P. Senators: Who Will Survive?
When the Iraq war again took center stage in the Senate two Mondays ago, the maneuverings of four Republican Senators were particularly fascinating.
John Sununu, Susan Collins, Norm Coleman and Gordon Smith all face re-election next year in states that voted for John Kerry in 2004. Needless to say, they are all high on the target list of national Democrats. read more »
McCain Disdains Annan's G.O.P. Critics
