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...professors cited Bayh's legislative achievements and his role in the drafting of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Amemdments to the Constitution, and the as yet unratified Equal Rights Amendment, as the reason for their endorsement...
...field for tomorrow's primary is crowded and confused. There are seven major candidates: Udall, Senator Birch Bayh, R. Sargent Shriver, and former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris are hoping to capture the liberal vote; Alabama Governor George C. Wallace and Senator Henry M. Jackson are after the more conservative, anti-busing Democrats; and Jimmy Carter is trying to appeal to just about everybody...
...word last week was that Bayh was broke, had poured all he had into a confrontation with Henry Jackson in New York on April 6, and so would finish out of the money in Massachusetts. Bayh has spent $38,000 on T.V. in Boston, less than anyone else except Shriver and anti-abortion candidate Ellen McCormack, but he does have strong labor support. Whether that support together with whatever liberals he can pull out of the suburbs will be enough to overtake Udall is another matter entirely...
Jackson has used the "efficient government" line, too; all the liberal Democrats, with Harris going the farthest, share Bayh's orientation toward jobs. Bayh is especially good on women's rights--he sponsored the ERA in the Senate--and even though he personally opposes abortion, he would not legislate against it. Bayh's major claim to fame, however, is his fight against the Haynesworth and Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court. Andrew Kopkind of the Real Paper says that the real credit for defeating those nominations, however, should go to civil rights activist Marian Edelman, who put a lobbying coalition...
...Bayh's basic problem is that no one believes any longer that the presidency is the exclusive property of the Gentlemen's Club known as the U.S. Senate. He's personable, quick to answer questions, and has the brightest baby-blue eyes this side of the cradle. In a so-called "year of the non-politician," Bayh says, "I'm proud to be a politician--and I'm not against Big Government--I just want it to be more efficient...