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She favors health-care relief for the middle class and advocates a payroll tax cut. Ms. Slaughter supports a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution and would end deficit spending.
She has also pledged to take her expertise in environmental affairs to Congress.
Ms. Slaughter came out in opposition to the Thomas nomination prior to Anita Hill’s sexual-harassment charges, calling Judge Thomas unqualified. She opposes quotas.
Most recently the two candidates have sparred over scheduling headto-head, public debates (there won’t be any) and on taking a written, nonew-taxes pledge (which both have since signed). Del. Allen has tried to portray Ms. Slaughter as a left-wing Democrat cut from the same cloth as Gov. Wilder and Michael Dukakis, and Ms. Slaughter has painted Del. Allen as a “back-slapping, career politician” who would not fight for 7th District concerns in Congress. Both candidates are in favor of term limitations for Congressmen.
The only polling that has been conducted for this race was done by the campaigns, and although they would not release the entire polls, they basically made the same conclusion: the two are very close, with a large chunk (30-45 percent of the vote) undecided as of mid-Septem
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