This Week (ABC) - 1995-10-15

Name: This Week (ABC) - 1995-10-15
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:01] [music]

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[0:12] [music]

[0:16] >> The new four-door Voyager and Town &

[0:18] Country minivans [music] are at

[0:19] Beaverton Chrysler-Plymouth. I'm Bob

[0:21] Lanphere. We need to make room [music]

[0:23] for these and all the '96 models. That

[0:26] means the '95s must go and they're all

[0:28] clearance priced. [music]

[0:30] Hurry in for the closeout on all '95s.

[0:33] Our award-winning parts and service

[0:34] department [music]

[0:35] is open with extended hours during the

[0:36] week and all day Saturday. Come in and

[0:39] see the difference [music] at Beaverton

[0:40] Chrysler-Plymouth on Canyon Road in

[0:43] Beaverton.

[0:46] Town Hall examines our racial divide

[0:48] tonight at 6:00.

[0:49] >> [music]

[0:53] >> From [music] ABC News,

[0:58] This Week with David Brinkley.

[1:01] Now, from Washington, David Brinkley.

[1:04] What on earth is happening [music] to

[1:06] the Democratic Party?

[1:08] Whatever it is, it's not healthy. The

[1:10] party is looking a little pale, a little

[1:12] puny.

[1:13] Since 1992, 137 of its members,

[1:17] high-level and low, have switched to the

[1:19] Republicans. Two US senators, three

[1:21] House members, 43 state legislators,

[1:24] seven mayors, five sheriffs, four

[1:27] constables,

[1:29] and eight Democratic senators will

[1:31] retire in 1996.

[1:33] All of this on top of the very heavy

[1:35] losses in the midterm elections in 1994.

[1:39] Eight in the Senate, 57 in the House,

[1:42] and 10 governors.

[1:44] What is to be made of all this? We'll

[1:46] ask our guests. Gary Hart, who's a

[1:48] former Colorado senator and candidate

[1:50] [music] for president,

[1:52] Senator Richard Shelby, Republican,

[1:54] formerly a Democrat, Alabama,

[1:56] Senator Chris Dodd, Connecticut,

[1:58] chairman [music] of the Democratic

[1:59] National Commit