Do you want to trust and like the president--is that more important--or do you believe you have to vote for Gore to keep the peace and prosperity we've had the last eight years?

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A lot of us thought that school board elections all over the country would be dominated by it — particularly in conservative areas. But other than a couple of places, it just has not taken off.

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There are not a lot of reasons for people to vote.

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Democrats scratch their heads and can't figure out why he keeps winning. They don't understand how someone so conservative and brash can win in Pennsylvania, a centrist, light-blue state where moderates prevail.

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I've never seen anything like this, ... It's a populist insurrection.

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I don't think they're going to do anything, ... I've not seen a single member of the leadership show any inclination to admit that what they did was in error.

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The attitude is much more inflammatory in the central and western part of the state than it is in the southeast, ... A lot of people are worse off financially than they were a year ago, paying more for things like healthcare and gasoline, and (the pay raise) really rubbed them the wrong way.

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This is just not about the judges -- the judges are not known directly by people, ... This is guilt by association and augurs of bigger things to come.

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This is the issue that wouldn't go away, ... The pay hike triggered long-standing, simmering anger over the way the Legislature does its business and, indeed, over the way Harrisburg operates. It's a reaction against secrecy and what the voters say is arrogance.

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