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Article: Searching out the issues. (1990 election results) (column)
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- National Review
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- December 17, 1990
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The election results have been foraged by the experts seeking out their meaning. The data are as unyielding as the Delphic oracle, who made his reputation by giving ambiguous answers.
For instance, did we learn for certain how the vote is tending on the issue of abortion? Answer: Not really; in part because those candidates who were pro-choice and won might very well have won for other reasons, the same being true of other candidates who ran undeviatingly (Jesse Helms) as pro-lifers.
Did we learn what is the national mandate on our military initiative in the Middle East? The answer is no, but this does not mean that our presence there won't be a heavy ...