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Article: POLITICS NOT THE RIGHT PATH FOR RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 31, 1999
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The ``off-year'' election on Nov. 3, 1998, demonstrated the problematic, even declining, power of the Religious Right. Republicans, who at one time were expected to gain a filibuster-proof majority with as many as five more seats in the U.S. Senate, could not add to their 55 seats. In the House, the GOP lost five seats, giving it the smallest majority (five) since the first Eisenhower administration.
The biggest prize of all, California, found a 23-year veteran of state government, Lt. Gov. Gray Davis, easily defeating Attorney General Dan Lungren (a lifelong Catholic who is pro-life). Lungren had been hailed by some political and religious conservatives as ``the ...