Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: A review of results from key races nationwide Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 16:16:30 EST Message-ID: \SE A;ELECTIONS '92;ACROSS THE NATION \HD A review of results from key races nationwide ALABAMA SENATE - Democratic Sen. Richard Shelby swept to a second term. HOUSE - George Wallace Jr. was on his way to ending a 28-year GOP hold on a congressional seat. ARIZONA SENATE - Incumbent Republican John McCain defeated Democrat Claire Sargent. ARKANSAS SENATE - Incumbent Democrat Dale Bumpers defeated Republican Mike Huckabee. HOUSE - Secretary of State Bill McCuen, a Democrat who beat Rep. Beryl Anthony in the primary, had a slim lead over Republican Jay Dickey. Democrat Blanche Lambert, who bounced Bill Alexander in the primary, defeated Republican Terry Hayes. TERM LIMITS - A ballot measure to limit the terms of state and federal officeholders was passing in early returns. CALIFORNIA SENATE - Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer rang up historic victories for California's two Senate seats. HOUSE - High-profile congressional candidates included Dick Rutan, co-pilot of the historic 1986 round-the-world flight of the experimental Voyager aircraft, who challenged Democratic incumbent George Brown Jr. of Riverside. Another was millionaire Republican Michael Huffington of Santa Barbara, whose $4.75 million campaign set a record for spending in a congressional race. The state was assured of at least 16 new members of Congress in its 52-seat delegation. Currently, Democrats held 26 House seats and Republicans 19. REFERENDUMS - Californians also considered a long list of ballot issues, including a right-to-die initiative, term limits for members of Congress, Gov. Pete Wilson's initiative to increase his budget authority and cut welfare benefits by up to 25 percent, higher state income taxes on the wealthy and repeal of the new snack tax. COLORADO SENATE - Voters settled a close contest between Democratic Rep. Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Republican Terry Considine for an open Senate seat. The seat became vacant because Democrat Tim Wirth is retiring after a single term. REFERENDUMS - Amendment 2 would bar anti-homosexual discrimination laws, and Amendment 7 would give a voucher, worth about $2,100, to the parents of every school-age child. They could send the child to any public school or defray the cost of private or home schooling. CONNECTICUT SENATE - Sen. Christopher J. Dodd gained a third term despite a flood of television advertising by his millionaire opponent. HOUSE - First-term Rep. Gary Franks, the lone black Republican in Congress, defeated Democrat James Lawlor, a probate judge, and state Rep. Lynn Taborsak. DELAWARE GOVERNOR - Delaware elected its first Democratic governor in 20 years, giving U.S. Rep. Thomas Carper a substantial victory. FLORIDA SENATE - Sen. Bob Graham cruised to a second term, defeating Bill Grant, who lost his House seat in 1990 after switching to the Republican Party. HOUSE - Former federal Judge Alcee Hastings won election Tuesday to the institution that impeached him. Democrats Hastings and state Rep. Corrine Brown joined state Sen. Carrie Meek, who had no Republican opponent, in giving the state three black representatives. The state had not sent any blacks to Congress since Reconstruction. Florida had 10 open congressional seats, six because of retirement and four through reapportionment that gave the state 23 representatives. The current delegation had 10 Republicans and nine Democrats. TERM LIMITS - Florida voters overwhelmingly passed a measure limiting terms for state and federal office holders. GEORGIA SENATE - Incumbent Democrat Wyche Fowler Jr. faced Republican Paul Coverdell. HOUSE - Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, the No. 2 House Republican, narrowly survived his primary this year and faced an unexpectedly stiff challenge from Atlanta lawyer Tony Center. ILLINOIS SENATE - Carol Moseley Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Mrs. Braun, whose anger over the Clarence Thomas hearings turned her into a Senate candidate, defeated Republican Rich Williamson, a lawyer who relentlessly attacked her ethics. HOUSE - Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Democratic chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, sought an 18th term in the 5th District despite a criminal investigation hanging over him. INDIANA SENATE - Republican Sen. Dan Coats decisively defeated Joseph Hogsett to win his first full term. HOUSE - Democrat Jill Long in Indiana won with a healthy 20-point margin. Incumbent Indiana Democrats Jim Jontz and Frank McCloskey held only narrow leads in the early counting. GOVERNOR - Democratic Gov. Evan Bayh easily won a second term. The 36-year-old Mr. Bayh, the nation's youngest governor and the son of former Sen. Birch E. Bayh, scored the victory over Republican Linley E. Pearson, the attorney general. IOWA SENATE - Two-term Republican Sen. Charles Grassley defeated an underfinanced state senator. HOUSE - Reapportionment put three-term Democrat Dave Nagle and freshman Republican Jim Nussle in the same northeast Iowa House district. Mr. Nussle was ahead in a race too close to call. REFERENDUMS - Voters were approving a state Equal Rights Amendment. KANSAS SENATE - Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole won re-election by defeating Democrat Gloria O'Dell. HOUSE - The House delegation consisted of two Democrats and three Republicans, but the state was losing a seat through reapportionment. KENTUCKY SENATE - Democratic Sen. Wendell Ford easily won a fourth term by defeating his Republican challenger, state Sen. David Williams. HOUSE - State Rep. Susan Stokes mounted a strong challenge to 22-year incumbent Democratic Rep. Ron Mazzoli in the 3rd District. Republican Harold Rogers, who had faced a tough test this year, survived with 54 percent of the vote. MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE - Rep. Nicholas Mavroules, facing a 17-count federal indictment, was losing to Republican Peter Torkildsen, an ex-state representative and former candidate for lieutenant governor. Rep. Joseph Early, who had the state's worst record in the House banking scandal, was trailing Republican state Rep. Peter Blute. MICHIGAN HOUSE - Democratic Whip David Bonior was locked in a tight rematch against Republican Doug Carl, in a district where redrawn lines brought in more GOP voters. TERM LIMITS - An initiative to limit terms of officeholders had the approval of voters in early results. MINNESOTA HOUSE - In a top congressional race in the Twin Cities' suburban 6th District, five-term Democratic Rep. Gerry Sikorski trailed Republican Rod Grams. In the 2nd District in southwestern Minnesota, where GOP Rep. Vin Weber was retiring, Democratic lawyer David Minge held a narrow early lead over Republican Cal Ludeman. State Supreme Court - A nonpartisan race featured former pro football star Alan Page, an assistant attorney general hoping to become the first black state Supreme Court justice. He led in early voting. MISSISSIPPI HOUSE - Mississippi's five Democratic congressmen all were re-elected. Rep. Mike Espy, who has been mentioned as a possible Clinton Cabinet member, was another easy winner. MISSOURI SENATE - Democrat Geri Rothman-Serot was in a neck-and-neck race with freshman Republican Sen. Christopher Bond. GOVERNOR - Democrat Mel Carnahan won the governorship handily, capping a strenuous comeback against William Webster, the state's Republican attorney general. TERM LIMITS - Two term-limits amendments to the state constitution were before voters - one curbing state legislative service and the other affecting Congress. MONTANA TERM LIMITS - A term-limits measure had an overwhelming majority in early ballot results. NEBRASKA HOUSE - The three House incumbents - two Republicans and one Democrat - were favored to win re-election. REFERENDUMS - Voters passed constitutional amendments aimed at creating a state lottery and limiting the number of terms state and federal officials serve. NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE - Republican Gov. Judd Gregg defeated millionaire businessman John Rauh for an open Senate seat. GOVERNOR - Republican Steve Merrill was elected governor, turning back Deborah Arnie Arnesen's bid to become New Hampshire's first woman in the job. NEW JERSEY HOUSE - A Democratic legislator, Robert Menendez, became the state's first Hispanic representative in Congress. NEW YORK SENATE - Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato defeated challenger Robert Abrams after a nasty campaign. HOUSE - In New York City, Democrat Nydia Velazquez, who won a tough primary fight, appeared a shoo-in to become the first Puerto Rican-born woman in Congress. New Yorkers voted on 31 House seats, down from 34 in the current Congress because of reapportionment. NORTH CAROLINA SENATE - Republican Lauch Faircloth, a protege of Sen. Jesse Helms, defeated Democratic Sen. Terry Sanford. HOUSE - Democrat Eva Clayton became the first black woman elected to Congress from North Carolina. In a race in the 12th district, black Democrat Melvin Watt defeated a black Republican candidate, Barbara Gore Washington. GOVERNOR - Jim Hunt completed his comeback by winning a third term as governor in North Carolina. He beat Republican Lt. Gov. Jim Gardner. NORTH DAKOTA SENATE - Democratic Rep. Byron Dorgan defeated Republican Steve Sydness, a Fargo city commissioner, in a race for the U.S. Senate, to fill the seat vacated by Kent Conrad. GOVERNOR - Republican Ed Schafer led Democrat Nicholas Spaeth in the gubernatorial race. TERM LIMITS - A referendum to limit the number of terms of elected officials led by a slim margin in early results. OHIO SENATE - Democratic Sen. John Glenn won a fourth term, despite the toughest challenge of his political career from Republican Lt. Gov. Mike DeWine. HOUSE - Two congressional incumbents with overdrafts at the House bank - Cleveland Democrat Mary Rose Oakar and Bob McEwen, a Republican from southern Ohio - faced challenges. TERM LIMITS - Voters approved a ballot measure to limit the terms of state and federal officeholders. OKLAHOMA SENATE - Republican Sen. Donald Nickles easily won re-election. OREGON SENATE - Republican Sen. Bob Packwood, seeking a fifth term, was in a close race with Democratic Rep. Les AuCoin. REFERENDUMS - Measure 9, the anti-gay rights measure that provoked one of the most heated and divisive debates Oregon had seen in years, was trailing in early returns. PENNSYLVANIA SENATE - Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, ridiculed in "JFK" and criticized over Anita Hill, beat back a strong anti-incumbency campaign by Democrat Lynn Yeakel to win re-election. HOUSE - Three incumbent congressmen - Democrats Peter Kostmayer, Austin Murphy and Republican Don Ritter - were trailing challengers. RHODE ISLAND GOVERNOR - Gov. Bruce Sundlun stormed to victory over a political newcomer, Republican challenger Elizabeth Ann Leonard. TERM LIMITS - Voters approved a proposal to extend the terms of top state officials from two to four years, but limit them to two terms. SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE - Incumbent Democrat Ernest F. Hollings defeated Republican challenger Tommy Hartnett, a former congressman. HOUSE - Democrat Jim Clyburn become the first black South Carolinian to go to Congress since 1897. SOUTH DAKOTA SENATE - Sen. Tom Daschle won a second term, defeating the only Republican woman to run for the Senate this year. HOUSE - Incumbent Democratic Rep. Tim Johnson won a fourth term against Republican state Rep. John Timmer. TERM LIMITS - Voters approved a measure to limit terms of officeholders. TEXAS HOUSE - In East Texas, 10-term incumbent Charlie Wilson was in a fight with former Army Capt. Donna Peterson, a Republican who came close to an upset two years ago. In the heated 2nd District race, Miss Peterson called Mr. Wilson "Hot-Check Charlie," a reference to the 81 bad checks for $144,000 Mr. Wilson wrote on the House bank. RAILROAD COMMISSIONER - Besides the presidential contest, the only other statewide contest drawing interest was between Democrat Lena Guerrero and GOP challenger Barry Williamson for a seat on the Railroad Commission, which regulates the state's energy industry. UTAH SENATE - Bob Bennett led in his bid for the Senate seat his father held for 24 years amid signs of a Republican sweep in this GOP stronghold. Republican Mike Leavitt was favored in the governor's race against millionaire independent Merrill Cook and Democrat Stewart Hanson Jr. VERMONT SENATE - Democratic U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy had a big early margin in his race for re-election. HOUSE - U.S. Rep. Bernard Sanders, a socialist who is the only independent in the U.S. House, beat Republican challenger Timothy Philbin and Democrat Lewis Young. GOVERNOR - Vermont, once the nation's most Republican state, overwhelmingly elected popular Democratic Gov. Howard Dean for a full term. Mr. Dean, who had been lieutenant governor, became governor last year upon the death of Republican Gov. Richard Snelling. WASHINGTON SENATE - Washington's big races went down to the wire, highlighted by a Senate contest pitting Democrat Patty Murray, who proudly called herself a "mom in tennis shoes," against Republican Rep. Rod Chandler. HOUSE - House Speaker Thomas S. Foley was favored in his first election since the House check-writing and postal scandals. GOVERNOR - In a tight governor's race, former Rep. Mike Lowry, a Democrat who said higher taxes might be needed to balance the budget, opposed Republican Ken Eikenberry, an attorney general who opposed any tax increase. TERM LIMITS - A measure to impose term limits on state and federal legislators was gaining a majority vote. WEST VIRGINIA GOVERNOR - Democratic Gov. Gaston Caperton hung on to the Statehouse despite breaking his no-new-taxes pledge. He beat Republican Cleve Benedict's and state Sen. Charlotte Pritt, a Democrat running a write-in campaign. WISCONSIN SENATE - Democrat Russell Feingold, whose offbeat campaign relied on humor, optimism and a road-weary van, unseated Republican Sen. Robert Kasten Jr. WYOMING HOUSE - Democratic Rep. Les Aspin won re-election easily, defeating Republican challenger Mark Neumann nearly 2-to-1, while Ada E. Deer's bid to become the first woman Indian elected to Congress appeared headed for defeat. Miss Deer, a Democrat, trailed Republican Scott Klug by a wide margin. TERM LIMITS - Wyoming voters were giving a huge margin to a term-limits measure in early returns. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM