Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post
Newsgroups: americast.wpost
From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com
Organization: American Cybercasting
Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com
Subject: ILLINOIS<
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 05:01:45 EST
Message-ID: <45.1992Nov5.050145@AmeriCast.com>

ILLINOIS<

Democratic Senate candidate Carol Moseley Braun's early lead
seemed in danger of disappearing overmishandling of Medicaid sup-
port for her mother's nursing home care, but she recovered and
scored an impressive 10-point win over her opponent, Chicago
lawyer Richard Williamson.

Illinois, which gave Clinton a wide victory margin,  was thought
to be home to a large number of endangered incumbents, but most
survived, many by huge margins.  House Ways and Means Committee
Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D), challenged by an anti-Washington
candidate who listed his name as Elias R. "Non-Incumbent" Zenk-
ich, won with 59 percent of the vote. Republican 23-year veteran
Rep.  Philip M. Crane, expected to face a strong challenge by
factory owner Sheila A. Smith (D), sailed through with a 58 per-
cent to 42 percent victory.  Democratic incumbent Rep. John W.
Cox Jr., who beat now-Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin in 1990, was
ousted handily by Republican lawyer Donald Manzullo in a tradi-
tionally Republican district.<

INDIANA<Though it is a traditional GOP stronghold that soundly
backed President Bush, Indiana handily reelected Democrat Evan
Bayh as governor. Taking 63 percent of the vote, Bayh defeated
Republican challenger Linley E. Pearson, Indiana's attorney gen-
eral. At 36, Bayh, son of former U.S. senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind),
is the nation's youngest governor.

Apparently riding Bush's coattails, Republican Steve Buyer de-
feated incumbent Rep. Jim Jontz (D), who was seeking a fourth
term in the House. Buyer, who will be one of a handful of new GOP
House members, squeaked by with 51 percent of the vote. Rep. Lee
H. Hamilton (D) handily batted back a challenge from a GOP antia-
bortion activist, winning his 15th term.

All other members of the House from Indiana remained unchanged
and there were no Senate races.

Heavy campaigning in the state by Vice President Quayle, an Indi-
ana native, earned Bush 43 percent of the state's votes, to 37
percent for Clinton. Perot garnered 20 percent.

Democrat Pamela Carter was elected to replace Pearson as attorney
general, becoming the first black woman to win statewide office.<

IOWA<Iowa voters, who four years ago spurned Bush for Mas-
sachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis (D), continued to give him the
cold shoulder and turned to Clinton. The Arkansas governor cam-
paigned there twice during the final days and was rewarded with
44 percent of the vote. Bush got 38 percent, and Perot came away
with a 19 percent share.

Sen. Charles E.  Grassley (R) coasted to a third term over state
Sen. Jean Lloyd-Jones (D).  Redistricting set up a battle between
incumbent Reps. David R. Nagle (D) and Jim Nussle (R) who gained
notoriety by putting a paper bag over his head in embarrassment
over the House Bank scandal. Nussle eked out a narrow 51 to 49
percent victory. Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot (R), who had bounced 105
checks at the House bank, nevertheless held off a strong chal-
lenge from Iowa Secretary of State Elaine Baxter (D) by the same
2 percentage point margin.< MICHIGAN<Though one of the most
heavily contested states in the presidential election, Michigan
produced few surprises among its 18 races for House and Senate
seats. In one of the strongest showings of the day, running
counter to Clinton's statewide victory, Republican Peter Hoekstra
won 64 percent of the vote in the 2nd Congressional District.
Rep. Guy Vander Jagt (R), who has represented the part of the
newly drawn district since 1966, lost in the primary earlier this
year.

In the state's Upper Peninsula, Democrat Bart Stupak routed an
attempt by Phil Ruppe, to return to office. Stupak won 55 percent
of the vote in the 1st District to become one of the new Demo-
crats in the House.

House Majority Whip David E. Bonior (D) turned back a bid by
Republican Douglas Carl to unseat him, winning 55 percent of the
vote.  Republican Joseph Knollenberg won an open seat in the 11th
District, however, defeating Walter Briggs (D) 57 to 43 percent.

Otherwise, from Rep. John D.  Dingell (D) to Rep. John Conyers
Jr. (D), the state's veteran lawmakers held on to their seats,
and the turnout for Clinton was strong.< MINNESOTA<Minnesota,
long regarded as one of the country's most dependable states for
the Democrats, stuck with that tradition, giving Clinton 44 per-
cent of the total votes cast. Bush was a distant second with 32
percent. Despite election-eve signs that Perot's strength was
eroding, the independent challenger made one of his strongest
showings in Minnesota, picking up a 24 percent share.

Clinton benefited from the affinity of Minnesota voters for li-
beral candidates and causes. He and Perot jointly took 68 percent
of the vote, reflecting unease about the economy. The high-tech
and food-processing industries in the Twin Cities have suffered
from the recession, and the state's dairy and wheat farmers, have
long been unhappy about the Bush's administration's attempts to
trim agricultural subsidies.

In the most closely watched House race, Rep. Gerry Sikorski (D),
who had 697 overdrafts at the House Bank and switched from an an-
tiabortion to an abortion rights stance, was defeated by Rod
Grams (R), a former television news anchorman and outspoken abor-
tion foe. In the struggle for the House seat vacated by Rep. Vin
Weber, an influential Republican conservative, David Minge (D)
squeeked through by a handful of votes over Cal Ludeman (R).<

MISSOURI<Democrat Mel Carnahan easily won a bid for governor of
Missouri, defeating state Attorney General William L. Webster.
The victory was aided by a strong statewide showing for Clinton,
whose home state of Arkansas lies along Missouri's southern bord-
er.

Webster, an outspoken abortion opponent, was dogged by ties to a
scandal-ridden injured worker's fund. He gained only 41 percent
of the vote, to Carnahan's 59 percent. Carnahan, a 58-year-old
career politician with a low-key style, is Missouri's first demo-
cratic governor since 1981.

Sen.  Christopher S. Bond (R) won reelection after St. Louis
County Councilwoman Geri Rothman-Serot's (D) strong bid fizzled.
Rothman-Serot at first rode high on the wave of support for fe-
male candidates in the "Year of the Woman," but in the end cap-
tured only 46 percent of the vote, to Bond's 54 percent.

In House elections, Republican challenger James Talent unseated
incumbent Rep.  Joan Kelly Horn (D) 51 to 49 percent.

Missouri was one of 14 states to pass term limit laws. Members of
the House are limited to four terms, while U.S.  senators are al-
lowed two terms under the measure.<

OHIO<Sen. John Glenn (D), who had been thought to be in deep
trouble in his closely watched bid for a fourth term, coasted to
an easy 10 percentage point victory over challenger Lt. Gov.
Michael DeWine (R). The 71-year-old former astronaut carried a
narrow lead into the final days of the campaign and was not ex-
pected to top 50 percent.

On Tuesday he far outpaced Clinton's 1 percentage point advantage
in the state.

Embattled Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D), who had 213 bad checks at the
House Bank and barely survived a seven-candidate primary, was
ousted by lawyer Martin R. Hoke, who won 57 percent of the vote.

Democrats picked off veteran GOP Rep. Bob McEwen, who had 166
overdrafts at the House Bank.  Democratic challenger Ted Strick-
land, a psychology professor and three-time candidate, who lost
to McEwen in 1980, appealed to anti-incumbent sentiments and
squeaked by with a margin of fewer than 5,000 votes.<

WISCONSIN<Despite a last-minute campaign blitz by Bush to make
the Badger state a key part of a comback, the Clinton forces kept
Wisconsin's 11 electoral votes in the Democratic column. When the
see-sawing vote count was over, Clinton had 41 percent, Bush 37
percent and Perot, continuing his strong showing in the upper
Midwest, 22 percent. In addition to the presidential race, the
state also turned away from the incumbent Republican Sen. Robert
W. Kasten Jr., electing state Sen. Russell D. Feingold, little
known outside the strongly liberal Madison area.

Feingold, who is Jewish, defeated an opponent strongly backed by
American supporters of Israel. Kasten, the ranking minority
member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that deals with
foreign aid, had received almost $143,000 in campaign funds from
pro-Israel PACs.

In House races, Rep.  Les Aspin (D), chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee, confounded reports that he might be in trou-
ble and easily defeated Mark Neumann (R). Rep.  Thomas E. Petri
(R), with a large number of overdrafts at the House Bank, turned
back a challenge by state Rep. Peggy A. Lautenschlager (D).< -
John Goshko, Gary Lee and Al Kamen>02:36 11-05C9999-----

Copyright 1992, The Washington Post.  This story is from the
Washington Post's Capitol Edition On-Line and is not to be ar-
chived or redistributed.

For more information, send-email to American Cybercasting Cor-
poration (usa@AmeriCast.COM)