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Newt Gingrich - Election of 1992. Gingrich was reelected ten times, facing only one truly difficult race. That came in 1990. when he barely defeated Democrat David Worley. During the 1990s round of redistricting, Democrats in the Georgia state legislature tried to draw Gingrich's district out from under him by splitting most of his old territory among two other districts. At the same time, they created a new 6th District located in Fulton and Cobb counties in the wealthy northern suburbs of Atlanta—an ar ...

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In 1994, Gingrich defined a Contract with America, a list of campaign promises, presented as acts of Congress, signed by himself and other Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. Haley Barbour, former RNC Chairman and Governor of Mississippi, remarked in literature given out to party activists, “…it is about defining, building and communicating what our party stands for, where we will take government”. The acts were designed to unite the various factions of the party and provide a contrast with the policies of the Democ ...

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As a member of the Republican minority in the 1980s, DeLay made a name for himself while criticizing the National Endowment for the Arts and the Environmental Protection Agency. DeLay was appointed deputy whip by then-Minority Whip Dick Cheney in 1988. When the Republican Party gained control of the House in 1995 following the 1994 election, DeLay was elected Majority Whip against the wishes of Speaker-elect Newt Gingrich. DeLay was not always on good terms with either Gingrich or Dick Armey, the House Majority Leader; he consi ...

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After the 1990 census, Texas Democrats drew what Republican political analyst Michael Barone argued was the most effective partisan gerrymander in the country. The Democrats won 70 percent of the Texas congressional seats in 1992, the first year in which it was operative, while taking half of the total number of votes cast for Congress statewide. After the 2000 census, Republicans sought to redraw the district lines to support a GOP majority in the congressional delegation while Democrats desired to retain a plan similar to the existing line ...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton - Black Panther Party. Claims are sometimes made that in 1969, Hillary Rodham helped shut down Yale University as part of helping to defend, and get acquitted, members of the Black Panther Party on trial in New Haven for torture and murder. In reality, Rodham was only a law student at the time, and her involvement was limited to "organizing other students to help the American Civil Liberties Union monitor the trial for civil rights violations." [91] Her peripheral involvement had no effect on Yale activities or on the outcome of the trial. < ...

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He was born Newton McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Newton Searles McPherson and Kathleen Daugherty. His parents separated soon after Newt's birth, and his mother raised him by herself until she married Robert Gingrich, who adopted Newt, hence the name change. Gingrich has a younger half-sister, Candace Gingrich, who was born when he was already a young adult. Gingrich rarely saw her when she was growing up. Gingrich's adopted surname has been generally pronounced "Ging-ritch" since his entry into public life. However, his adoptive family has always pronounced the name "Gin-g ...

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In 1974 and 1976, Newt Gingrich made two unsuccessful runs for Congress in Georgia's sixth congressional district, which stretched from the southern Atlanta suburbs to the Alabama border. Gingrich lost both times to incumbent Democrat Jack Flynt. Jack Flynt was a conservative Democrat of the Georgia delegation who had family political ties that bound him to a particular powerbase within his district. He had never faced a serious challenge prior to Gingrich's two runs against him. In both cases, Flynt just barely squeaked by even thoug ...

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