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Updated 10/28/98 7:15PM

Just Like Americorps
An AFL-CIO flyer currently being distributed in Iowa urges "volunteers" to work phone banks and "get labor and working family friendly candidates elected." The "volunteers," it adds, "will be reimbursed $30 for each 4 hrs volunteered."

Beats working for minimum wage. Heck, it's not even "working"--it's "volunteering"!

Election Predictions
Here are what some of our friends are saying:

John Fund, Wall Street Journal
House: +12 GOP
Senate: +4 GOP
Close call: John Sharp (D.) wins Lt. Gov. race in Texas.

Major Garrett, U.S. News & World Report
House: +14 GOP
Senate: +4 GOP
Close call: John Ensign (R.) wins Nevada Senate race.

Ed Kilgore, Democratic Leadership Council
House: +7 GOP
Senate: +2 GOP
Close call: "Dixie trifecta": Democrats Don Siegelman, Roy Barnes, and Jim Hodges win Gov. races in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, respectively.

Stephen Moore, Cato Institute
House: +20 GOP
Senate: +5 GOP
Close call: No losses by Republican incumbents in House, Senate, or Governor's mansions.

Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
House: +11 GOP
Senate: +4 GOP
Close call: Linda Lingle (R.) wins Hawaii Gov. race; Guy Millner (R.) wins Georgia Gov. race.

Jim Pinkerton, Newsday columnist
House: +16 GOP
Senate: +3 GOP
Close call: Mark Neumann (R.) wins Wisconsin Senate race.

Matthew Rees, Weekly Standard
House: +13 GOP
Senate: +3 GOP
Close call: Paul Ryan (R.) wins 1st CD in Wisconsin.

Peter Roff, GOPAC
House: +11 GOP
Senate: +4 GOP
Close call: Gov. Fob James (R.) re-elected in Alabama; Dan Lungren (R.) wins California Gov. race.

Marshall Wittmann, Heritage Foundation
House +5 GOP
Senate +3 GOP
Close call: Sen. Al D'Amato (R.) re-elected in New York.

Coming Soon
Tomorrow NR will offer its own election predictions, including picks for every close Senate and gubernatorial race.

Rewards of Boldness
Republicans took Democrats, and us, by surprise with their new set of three ads against Clinton and the Democrats. The ads are carefully calibrated, not mentioning impeachment directly but playing on the public's distrust of Clinton. Any doubts that they were effective were quickly dispelled by the hysteria with which they were greeted by Democrats, who had thought they had succeeded in intimidating Republicans out of using the character issue just as they did in 1996.

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John J. Miller - National Political Reporter
Kate Dwyer - Editorial Associate

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