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The Battalion Decision 5 Page Wednesday • November 6, Reactions Continued from Page 1 “At least the power is going to be with the conservative Republicans,” he said. “We can keep taxes and welfare issues in a system of checks and balances.” • Kristy Perez, president of Aggie Democrats and an educa tional psychology graduate stu dent: Perez said Clinton’s victory is representative of voters’ expectations of their future. “Looking at the two candi dates, I think they made the right choice for their future,” she said. “I’m thankful students went out and voted, no matter what party they voted for.” • Jeff Livingston, president of College Republicans and a senior electrical engineering major: Livingston said voters showed their approval of a Republican Congress by re electing Republican Senator Phil Gramm. “I think Sen. Gramm’s pretty convincing victory shows peo ple want a more responsible government,” he said. “Americans are pretty happy with a Republican Congress.” • Ryan Runkle, president of Aggies for Clinton and a senior philosophy major: Runkle said he was excited about the re-election of the Democratic president. “It looks like they (Republicans) may have won a sheriff’s race,” he said in refer ence to the election of Republican Sheriff Chris Kirk. “But we (Democrats) won the presidency and we’re going to keep it well into 2000.” Election Continued from Page 1 Clinton went on to an industri al belt sweep, winning New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois. Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota added to Clinton’s Midwest rout. The border states of President .;i_RESUI_Ts|S| Clinton Popular: 49 percent if Electoral: Won 29 states and Washington, D.C., with V 361 votes; leads in 5 states with 27 votes. Dole Popular: 41 percent m Electoral: Won 13 states II with 113 votes; leads in 3 states with 29 votes. Perot Popular: 8 percent Electoral: none; leads in Results as of 11:30 p.m. % Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, home state of Vice President A1 Gore, also were in the Democratic column, as was Clinton’s Arkansas. Arizona and New Mexico brought good news from the Southwest; Louisiana from the South. Clinton carried the six New England states and rolled through New York, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. California, Oregon and Washington continued the rout. Dole and Jack Kemp, on the other hand, carried 14 states with a combined 129 electoral votes. Dole’s wins came in North Dakota, Oklahoma, Indiana, Alabama, Wyoming, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Idaho, Virginia, South Carolina and his native Kansas — all states carried by George Bush against Clinton in 1992. Dole based his challenge to Clinton on a pledge of dramatic tax cuts and an indictment of Clinton’s ethical record. Clinton asked for four more years by citing the 10 million new jobs and low unemployment that marked the first four. The White House campaign offered a stark generational con trast, pitting a graying 50-year-old baby boomer against Dole, 73, a veteran of 35 years in Congress and the battlefields of World War II. A Gramm Old Party By Cap Te Dave House, The Battalio' Life could j^Jpatty Groff. Many peoj U.S. Senator Phil Gramm celebrates his victory over Democratic challenger Victor Morales last night at the College Station Hilton with Ivife of Texas / his wife Wendy. ^Hvally Groff, b Kition, Patty G She is Pat Morales fairy tale ends with Gramm’s victory (AP) —The clock struck mid night on Victor Morales’ fairy tale bid for the U.S. Senate Tuesday, and the Democratic underdog did not go home with the glass slipper. Republican incumbent Phil Gramm was the belle of the ball on this election night, coasting to victory over the high school gov ernment teacher who tried to ride into office in a pickup truck and on a shoestring budget. “Today the people of Texas placed their faith in us,” Gramm told about 300 cheering support ers who gathered in the College Station Hilton ballroom to cele brate his third-term victory. “The people of Texas entrusted us with the future of our country, with the future of our children. So help me God, I will not let you down.” With 47 percent of precincts reporting, Gramm had 1,766,431 votes, or 56 percent. Morales had 1,359,736, or 43 percent. Two other candidates split the remainder. “This ultimately got down to substance and issues, and when it did, we started to win,” said Gramm, 54, who made a short lived run for president before dropping out and refocusing on his Senate campaign. Branded Goliath in a battle between the power of incumben cy and the lure of the little guy, Gramm declared the little guy had in fact won this contest. “I’m David, the Goliath is big government,” he said. “David won, because the issue is govern ment and the role of government in a free society. My opponent wanted more government. I want ed more freedom, and I think that’s the choice.” Morales remained unconven tional to the end, refusing to con cede defeat hours after Gram was declared the winner. “It’s not over,” he promis enthusiastic crowd at a downt Austin hotel. This is tl profiling m of House Continued from Page 12 And in South Dakota’s at- large seat, Republican John Thune captured a seat vacated by Democrat Tim Johnson. In Mississippi, 33-year-old GOP Senate aide Chip Pickering cap tured the seat of retiring Democratic veteran Sonny Montgomery. And former Republican Rep. Wes Watkins staged a comeback in Oklahoma to take a vacant Democratic seat. Gingrich and House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt easily won re-election. Gephardt, the likely speaker if Democrats were to gain control, planned an election night cele bration in downtown St. Louis. Track star Jim Ryun, former world record holder in the mile, won an open Republican House seat in Kansas to join other Republican athletes, football star J.C. Watts of Oklahoma and major league pitcher Jim Running of Kentucky, in the House. Voters interviewed in exit polls across the country were splitting evenly between Democratic and Republican House candidates; only in the South, where the GOP has grown in recent years, did Republicans appear to have a comfortable edge. By a 51-45 margin, voters dis approved of Congress’ perfor mance under GOP leadership the past two years. And by almost a 2-to-l mar gin, those interviewed expressed a negative view of Gingrich, who was hoping for a second term as House speaker. Half of the voters surveyed said their view of the speaker played a role in their choice for U.S. representative. The exjt polls were conducted by Voter News Service. Senate Continued from Page 12 ife, mother < , lour, literacy Surrounded on stage by cam- r ommerce n; paign volunteers, Morales said he vvor j <; _f orce was proud of their efforts ^Valley Develoi urged his supporters to staj c Q ro ff w j 1( involved in the political process. w j ( p’ “If by some miracle Pbil [rien t Coun Gramm does pull this out . n iistic abou please don’t go back to cynidsmEpr inh farili don’t go back to apathy,” he sai( “yy e 0 p en c “This race was about our righ* looking to fir take it on. No matter what Ik l om eone for e results, hold your head up high. j_{ er or g an exas Employ aintains a n; Groff said: In Rhode Island, Rep. Jack Reed easily held another seat for the Democrats. Republicans replaced one senator with another in Kansas, where Rep. Pat Roberts won handily; and Rep. Sam Brownback kept Bob Dole’s old Kansas seat in the GOP column. State Rep. Mike Enzi kept a Wyoming seat for the Republicans, who also were defending seats in Maine, Oregon and Colorado where incumbents were retiring. Winning his eighth term, Thurmond got a step up on immortality Senate-style. Come May, he’ll break the record for longevity, 41 years and 10 months, held by the late Carl Hayden of Arizona. Thurmond’s public career began in the 1920s. >w/y Helms’ victory was his fifth, in a rematch over Gat band and sug who was bidding to become the first black electedftmhe things sh the South since Reconstruction. lyolve around I Republican incumbents winning new terms incli ed Helms; Thurmond; Mitch McConnell of Kentuo his third; Phil Gramm of Texas, his third; Thad Cocltt P of Mississippi, his fourth; Jim Inhofe in Oklahoma,! | first full term; and Fred Thompson in Tennessee,i his first full six-year term. Sen. 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