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...January, Goodell will be neither. Boxed in by liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger and Conservative Party Candidate James Buckley, Goodell is running third. His seat is one of four that the Republicans are in grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation. Goodell, said Agnew, was the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," a remark that evoked substantial revulsion and a demand for an apology from Miss...
...with the Administration, Goodell?and everyone else ?knew he did not mean Goodell. Months ago, Nixon reportedly told a Republican Senator: "I hope Ted leaves Charlie alone. He [Goodell] is a disaster, but he's our disaster. I told him to cool it." But no one believes that Agnew or Chotiner would act without at least a wink from the President...
Buckley the candidate softly rakes "the voices of doubt and despair," claims to rap with the Silent Majority, curries the hardhat vote and?essential to his Nixon-Agnew support?promises to vote with Republicans in organizing the Senate...
...political strength in the Senate. Ideologically, it would be a standoff for Nixon-Agnew, but Goodell's political epitaph would cause liberal Republicans, far less aberrant than he, to wonder how often they can stray from the Administration reservation without being read out of the tribe...
Tunney has ridden at night in a police car and he demands that the men in blue be protected from would-be assassins, evoking a "Tunney-come-lately" gibe from Spiro Agnew. He also exploits California's rising rate of unemployment, as high as 15% in some job categories, tells laboring men who are satisfied with that to vote for George Murphy. He keeps a generous distance between himself and Reagan's Democratic opponent, Jess Unruh, who now appears certain to lose...