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This Week in Congress Congressional floor Schedule
New York
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Bradley Draws Even In what could be a much closer race than most political experts imagined, Bill Bradley the former Senator from New Jersey is in a statistical tie with Vice President Al Gore according to a Boston Globe/ Wbz - TV poll in New Hampshire. In a Boston Globe article Gerry Chervinsky, president of KRC Communications Research comments ''The Democratic primary race really appears to be a race that could go either way, ''Gore has an unfavorable rating that is higher than one would expect. It is partly due to the fact that people simply want a change.'' The poll results, which have an error factor of plus or minus 5%, are:
Gore 40% New Hampshire voters have a long tradition of upsetting the political apple cart. In 1968 President Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the race for a second term, after Minnesota Senator Gene McCarthy came close to beating him in the primary. In the same year Richard Nixon, given up for dead after loosing the race for Governor of California to Pat Brown, several years before, bounced back to national prominence, and respectability by winning the primary. It is beginning to appear that Democratic voters – not only in New Hampshire – but nation wide are looking for a change. Although President Clinton's approval ratings remain high, there is a feeling that Democrats would like to put this administration behind them. Bill Bradley is far more liberal than Gore, and is certainly not a " New Democrat". It would be a tough road for the Democrats in November with Bradley heading the ticket. The likelihood of the Democrats taking back the house would diminish. The Right To Keep And.... A suburban family is walking down Chicago's 35th street to get a hot dog, prior to attending the White Sox game on a Sunday afternoon. For no apparent reason a deranged man accosts them and beats several of them half to death with a club. This incident occurs right across the street from a police station, in Chicago's most politically connected neighborhood. This is less than a block from the home of our late, legendary, Mayor Richard J. Daley. That would be the same house our present Mayor Daley grew up in. Our mayor who not only opposes the right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons, but is hell bent to disarm us in our own homes as well. If people are not safe on a Sunday afternoon in Bridgeport, across from a police station, what about the rest of us? If this was an isolated incident, one could just let it pass as an unfortunate aspect of life. Fact of the matter is the City of Chicago leads the nation in the numbers of murders. Home invasions and armed robbery's are common place in this town. People just can't depend on the police to be everywhere all the time. I don't know if a conceal-carry law would have helped the victims on 35th street, but it sure makes me think.
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