Managing to hang on

National | House impeachment "managers" who took on Clinton are surviving the campaign to oust them at the ballot box | Bob Jones

Almost as soon as the final gavel came down on President Clinton's Senate impeachment trial, the Democrats started talking about revenge. Well, not "revenge," exactly—the word sounded much too bloodthirsty. Instead, they talked in public about "vindication": Come November, the 10 House managers who prosecuted the president would pay with their jobs, and Mr. Clinton would be vindicated.

But things haven't worked out quite like the Democrats intended. If Mr. Clinton was staking his reputation on the defeat of the House managers, he's certainly not going to like the result.

Of the 12 managers running for reelection (Charles Canady of Florida is retiring to honor his term-limits pledge), 10 appear to be cruising to victory. They are: Henry Hyde (Ill.), Bob Barr (Ga.), Ed Bryant (Tenn.), Steve Buyer (Ind.), Chris Cannon (Utah), Steve Chabot (Ohio), George Gekas (Penn.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Asa Hutchinson (Ark.), and James Sensenbrenner (Wis.).