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ill 148ft Y-No. 309 Chlo9oTunt 78ont MONT M.D. I 7 Ana I "sr nc- U.S. House Dist 5 Dan Bias Zenkich U.S. House Dist 10 John Porter Michael Kennedy State's Attorney jL Patrick O'Connor President ELECTORAL VOTES Bill Clinton 345 George Bush 115 Ross Perot 0 POPULAR VOTE Bill Clinton ....43 George Bush 38 Ross Perot 18 Preliminary and unofficial bU.S.

Senate Carol Moseley Braun. 54 Richard Williamson 46 Democrats hold Congress More women join Senate GOP loses 3 governorships Huge U.S. voter turnout School runding plan losing Projected Bush win Projected Clinton win Projected Perot win Too close to call Source: Newt reports 1 Chicago Tribune immttuwm Hostel pirMteit Brami wins histoid Illinois Senate Blacks, women lead landslide Y' Bush defeat ends Republican era By Charles M. Madigan Arkansas Gov. Bill, Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States Tuesday, ending 12 years of Republican control of the White House with a promise "to restore growth to our country and opportunity to our people." His triumph revived the fortunes of a newly moderate Democratic Party and flowed from the successful embrace of the very middle-class values and dreams that had been the exclusive tory of White House Republicans for so many years.

He will enter the White House in January with strong Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and tB AP photo Claiming victory, President-elect Bill Clinton and running mate Al Gore bask In the cheers Tuesday night at the Old State House in Little Rock. By Thomas Hardy Political writer Democrat Carol Moseley Braun made history Tuesday, becoming the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate as an unprecedented alignment of Illinois voters swept her to a decisive victory over Republican Richard Williamson. Braun's historic accomplishment was built upon a monolithic vote in the black community and a sizable gender gap on a day that; found female candidates across the country adding to their numbers in the Senate.

Braun ran ahead of Williamson in nearly every part of the state as a marquee member of a ticket led by President-elect Bill Clinton, who carried Illinois in a landslide over President Bush. Unofficial early returns, with just under SO percent of the vote counted, showed Braun winning by 55 percent to 45 percent. But as important as Clinton's coattails were to the Democratic sweep, Braun's candidacy attracted a unique coalition. With statewide voter turnout projected at a 20-year high of 79 percent, an exit poll found Braun won 9 out of every 10 votes cast by African-Americans and that she had a 16-point advantage over Williamson among women voters. And, importantly, the poll found that turnout among women exceeded that of men by 4 percentage points.

Voters shrugged off what they viewed as a troubling controversy over Braun's handling of her mother's finances and Medicaid nursing-home care. Instead, Braun benefited as a woman candidate and because voters rejected Williamson as a more-of-the-same standard-bearer for Reagan-Bush economic policies that had become unpopular to recession-weary Illinoisans after 12 years of Republican administrations. Williamson telephoned his con-See Braun, pg. 19 Unresponsive to economic anxiety, Bush pays the price Senate and a powertui enougn Electoral College victory to claim a mandate for the fat social and economic agenda he advanced during the long campaign. All over the nation, the turnout was huge after registration campaigns' that added hundreds of thousands of new voters to the rolls.

By one count, as many as 100 million Americans voted Tuesday, reversing years of declining participation. "This election is a clarion call for our country to face the challenges of the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the next century," he said as a crowd of thousands cheered him at the Old State House in Little Rock. He repeated his campaign-trail pledge to restore growth to our country and opportunity to our people, to empower our own people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives." Clinton and his running mate, Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee, watched the voting returns in tie Rock, where the Arkansas governor finally alit after a airborne romp on the eve of the election. President Bush, who also pushed himself right up to the last minute, watched the returns in his chosen hometown of Houston.

It was a painful defeat for Bush, See Clinton, pg. 22 1 IPWI j. Jinmii Ju i ii ii I ii, ui i in i Mi erg- A By Steve Daley George Bush never saw it com-ing. American voters taught Bush a powerful lesson on Tuesday in denying him a second term, delivering a punishing message about economic discontent and fear of the future. But their message was no different from the one that Republican primary voters jn New Hampshire were airing last 'February when they delivered 37 percent of the vote to conservative pundit Patrick J.

Buchanan. Tuesday's results were a stunning reversal of fortune for a president who enjoyed a public approval rating of nearly 90 percent last year in the afterglow of Oper ation Desert Storm. As it turned out, the public had a short memory for war and a long memory for economic malaise. Already in late 1991, themes were beginning to rumble that would echo through the 1992 election campaign and thrust Bill Clinton into the White House. But few inside the Bush administration heard them.

In the end, Bush lost his fight for re-election by a stunning margin because he couldn't convince voters that he was genuinely attuned to their concerns. He lost because his administration was dominated by a status-quo mindset on the economy. He lost because of a public perception See Message, pg. 10 Tribune photo by John Knngu Carol Moseley Braun is joined by her son Matthew as she waves to supporters Tuesday following her election to the Senate. mcicz After 18 years, Republicans regain state Senate control Like FDR, Clinton facing task of reassuring nation powerment.

Using a GOP-drawn map that redrew the legislative boundaries with a Republican twist, voters elected at least 31 Republicans to the Senate, ending an 18-year string of Democratic victories. Senate Republican leader James "Pate" Philip of Du Page County, the hulking By Rick Pearson and Christine Hawes Republicans overcame a tide of Democratic support at the top of the ballot Tuesday and gained control of the Illinois Senate, ending a decade of Democratic control of the legislature and marking a new era of suburban em- Clinton and Al Gore come to Washington as emissaries of a new generation, a generation, says John Tyson, a contem- (orary of Clinton's and a longtime riend, that is urging, "Let us try our hand at governing. Despite his overwhelming vote on election night, Clinton and the new Congress are, in effect, on probation with an electorate, that wants immediate and fundamental changes. History does not repeat itself, but Bill Clinton will find inescapable similarities See Change, pg. IS In rural Arkansas, Clinton dreamed of presidency as a boy.

Pag 4. Some changes, but Democrats keep control of House, Senate. Page 13. Exit polls show Reagan Democrats turned tide in Illinois. Page 10.

Women score several victories in Senate races. Page 13. A sweeping school amendment has early troubles. Sec. 2, pg.

1. Hispanic Aid. Luis Gutierrez makes history. Sec. 2, pg.

1 Incumbent GOP state's attorney By M. Horrock Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON Bill Clinton will take office with more latitude to change the American domestic agenda than any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with a vista of opportunity unencumbered by the threat of nuclear war. From Harry Truman on, each president has had to rivet his gaze on the Soviet Union and maintain a national defense apparatus that became, at times, the main activity of government. No matter what ambitions for domestic, change these chief executives may have harbored, the stark reality of the Cold War hemmed them in. The Cold War is over and Clinton starts with the freedom to reorder the national priorities.

If President Bush had been able to do so, he might well have been re-elected. ionncr ivianne wun a reputation ror uu-cago bashing, is likely to become the next president of the chamber when it organizes in January. "I hope now the suburbs will finally be able to get theirs," Philip said early Wednesday. Philip's ascension from minority leader to Senate president is likely to concern not only Chicago Mayor Richard Daley but create some weariness on the part of Republican Gov. Jim Edgar, whom Philip bucked on third-airport legislation last See Assembly, p.

14 00000 Chicago area: Wednesday: Morning rain, turning cloudy; high 40 degrees. Wednesday night: Snow flurries; low 25. Thursday: Cloudy, chance for snow showers; high 37. LWls in Sc. 2, pg9.

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