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Ellsberg, Daniel | November 26, 1990 issue

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The article focuses on issues related to the midterm elections in the U.S. Efforts to impose a meaningful pattern on the thousands of contests must be largely in vain. There was no tidal wave of anti-incumbency fervor, as many had predicted, but neither was there much enthusiasm for any seated candidate. A few representatives connected to the savings and loan scandal were submerged, but others survived. Bernie Sanders's substantial victory for Vermont's lone Congressional seat and Paul Wellstone's squeaker win for Minnesota's junior seat in the Senate prove that real radicals and authentic progressives can succeed in high- level electoral politics.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; ELECTIONS; RADICALS; POLITICS, Practical; VOTING; UNITED States
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