ELECTION ’96
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Peter DeFazio 74%
John Newkirk 20%
Tonie Nathan 2%
William Bonville 1%
29 percent reporting
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Phil Keisling 64%
Stan Ash 27%
Elizabeth Ashbrook 3%
Mark Furman 2%
29 percent of Lane County reporting
Jim Hill 58%
BevCIarno 37%
John Meyers 2%
29 percent of Lane County reporting
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Hardy Meyers 59%
Victor Hotter 32%
Karl Sorg 4%
Thomas Cox 3%
29 percent of Lane County reporting
12% oj votes statewide counted
A«| Would amend Oregon
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___ amendment. Currently
failing with 57 percent no
and 43 percent yes.
Would authorize $750
million for the South/North
_ light rail project in Portland
and some rural
transportation projects. Failing with 53
percent no and 47 percent yes.
0% m Would repeal the hunting
££§ ban — using dogs to hunt
___ cougars and bait to hunt
Hufli bears — passed in 1994.
Currently failing with 59 percent no.
OO Would prohibit livestock in
streams that don't meet
__ state water-quality
HiUH standards due to grazing
impacts until livestock plan is approved
by state agencies. Private land would
not be affected until 2002. Failing with
§f\percent no.
M Would amend the Oregon
Constitution to bar
insurance companies and
HiidH others from discriminating
among categories of health
practitioners that provide the same or
similar services. Failing with 59 percent
no.
m Would amend the Oregon
Constitution to give crime
victims a greater role in
Hisfl court proceedings against
defendants. Would expand kinds of
evidence admissible in criminal trials.
Passing with 53 percent yes.
Would change the way
public information on state
employees is reported.
Failing with 68 percent no.
Would amend the state
constitution to require
annual testing of public
school students in grades
four through 12 on math, verbal and
possibly other skills. Requires state to
issue a report with test results by
school and grade. Failing with 68
percent no.
42
m Would raise retirement age
4|*1 for new public employees,
except for police and
HkUH firefighters, and would bar
medical benefits for non-disability
retired public employees. Retirement
age would change from 58 and 60 to
65 and 67. Failing with 67 percent no.
m Would require approval by
£§Q more than 50 percent of
registered voters to
HIM approve a tax increase.
Counts non-voters as a ‘no’ vote on tax
measures. Failing with 89 percent no.
m Q Would instruct state and
£|Q federal legislators to
support congressional term
HIM limits. Currently failing with
56 percent no.
Clinton by a landslide
Republicans maintain control of the
US. House and Senate, while Lott
vows to investigate the president
By John King
The Associated Press
President Clinton won a landslide re
election and political redemption Tuesday
night as Americans optimistic about the
economy brushed aside Bob Dole’s chal
lenge to his character. Voters hedged their
bets by keeping a GOP Senate, and Repub
licans were on
a path to hold
the House,
too.
Clinton
polled strong
ly in every re
gion for a
coast-to-coast
victory that
made him the
first Democra
tic president
reelected since
Franklin Roo
sevelt. It was a
dramatic re
bound from
the 1994
midterm elec
tions that delivered Congress to the Re
publicans.
“They have affirmed our cause and told
us to go forward,” Clinton said of voters
who returned him to office. Still, it was a
victory without coattails and Clinton ac
knowledged that Americans were bent on
splitting the balance of power in Washing
ton. “They are sending us a message: Work
together,” Clinton said.
Fireworks erupted after the president
addressed a crowd of thousands jamming
the streets of Little Rock, Ark. Vice Presi
dent A1 Gore called it a “glorious evening”
and indeed the numbers were very good
for the Democratic ticket. Clinton was on a
pace to match if not exceed the 370 elec
POPULAR VOTE
Division of popular vote
according to CNN news
as of 1 a.m. PST.
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§§ Perot
Nader
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fit
They have
affirmed our
cause and
told us to go
forward. They
are sending
us a message:
Work
together.”
— President
Clinton
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President
Clinton was
reelected by an
electoral
landslide. He
spoke at the
University
during his 1992
campaign.
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EMERALD
toral votes he won in 1992, and he was
close to the majority vote that eluded him
in 1992.
vVith 75 percent of the national vote
counted, Clinton was at 50 percent, Dole
42 and Perot 8 percent. The president
asked his Little Rock rally to applaud Dole
and running mate, Jack Kemp, and they
did so.
“I wish him well and I pledge my sup
port,” Dole said in conceding the race,
hushing supporters who booed Clinton’s
name. Dole and other Republican leaders
took solace in returns suggesting that vot
ers would keep the Congress in GOP hands
even as they gave Clinton four more years.
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Outcome still uncertain for
Smith. Bruaaere
Thousands of absentee ballots
will determine the results of the
U.S. Senatorial race
By Tamyra Howser and Doug Irving
Oregon Daily Emerald
No clear winner emerged in the U.S.
Senate election by 11:30 p.m. Tuesday,
and results will probably remain unclear
until Friday, when the absentee ballots are
counted.
Both Democrat Tom Bruggere and Re
publican Gordon Smith were at a dead
heat at 48 percent. However, at least
730,000 Oregonians were voting by absen
tee ballots, according to the Secretary of
State’s office.
“We’re going to win,” said Jess Stuckart,
an aide to the Bruggere campaign. “The re
sponse that we’re getting is just tremen
dous.”
However, Republicans also saw the elec
tion running their way.
BRUGGERE
SMITH
“It’s close but we’re not worried,” said
Marie Bell, a spokeswoman for Smith’s
campaign. “The momentum was certainly
in the right direction.”
Republicans said they thought Smith
would win the race because of past gov
ernmental experience.
"He's going to make good decisions,”
said Bill Royle, executive director of the
Lane County GOP. “His decisions are not
from the far right, not from the far left, but
from common sense."
“Both Bruggere and Smith said they
support higher education,” Bell said. “But
Gordon had a record showing he had sup
ported it.”
Smith supported an increase in that
budget. However, he remained conserva
tive with the increase, keeping in mind
other budget matters, Royle said.
However, volunteer Julie Novkov of the
local Democratic party said Bruggere rep
resents Oregon’s spirit and opinions better
than Smith.
For example, Bruggere’s business, Men
tor-Graphics, has consistently been voted
a family-friendly business.
You know where he stands,” she said.
The positions are much more representa
tive of what Oregonians think.”
President Clinton’s runaway victory
may have also helped Bruggere, said Joel
Bloom, a volunteer coordinator with the
local Democratic campaign.
That could play to our favor,” he said.
We re hoping that maybe some [local] Re
publicans stayed home.”