Last of Its Kind - First of This Kind:: Early 1990S Senate Campaigns - Transformed from Ordinary to Calls for More Women & ChangeIt was a tale of two cycles. The 1990 Senate election landscape rewarded popular incumbents and was largely devoid of national themes. There were colorful, headline grabbing moments and a near-shocker or two yet all but one Senator seeking another term was granted it. The 1992 landscape had no such clarity. A downward economy sparked the call for new ideas and backlash from the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill sexual harassment hearings started a furious movement that led to the “Year of the Woman.” Both themes converged to set the stage for “change.” The precursor was an unexpected race in Pennsylvania between those two cycles that, but for a plane crash would not have happened. This book profiles the most competitive races of those cycles. Readers will become acquainted with the issues, personalities and the men and women who personified the status quo, change and everything in between. |
Contents
Basketball Star Bradley Nearly Let The Ball Get Away In Squeaker Against Little | |
In Defeating Tauke Harkin Became First Iowa Democrat To Win Second Term | |
Akakas Special Election Win Over Saiki Preserved Hawaiis Strong Democratic | |
Kerry Had Unexpected Scare Ala Dukakiss Low Approvals and Rappaports | |
In 1990 South Dakotans Sent Pressler A Warning Sign That Their Elvis Had Left | |
Already Endangered Specters Interrogation of Anita Hill Produced Race | |
PackwoodAuCoin Race Lived Up To Top Billing Entire Cycle | |
MoseleyBraun Made History By Dethroning Dixon And Weathering Serious | |
In California Boxer and Feinsteins Election Meant The Year of the Woman | |
By Sending Murray To The Senate Washington Voters Made Her The Cinderella | |
Glenn Hung On But SL Proved Sole Impediment to His Blasting Off to Fourth | |
Perpetual Irreverence and Gulf War Vote Tested Hollings Durability Against | |
Though Gregg Prevailed Rauh Nearly Dented The Granite States Staunch | |
Harris Who Turned Upset Senate Win Into Precursor For Bill Clinton A Year | |
DAmato Fended Off A Nest of Scorpions Following A New York Style Slugfest | |
Acknowledgements | |
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