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...years the Democrats had controlled the U.S. Senate. Through Democratic and Republican presidencies, wars and scandals, riots and recessions, Democratic Senators maintained a majority in the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body." Then came the 1980 election-night massacre, when the heartland liberals, the George McGoverns and Frank Churches and Birch Bayhs, were sent packing by a band of upstart Republicans, most of them quite conservative and many undistinguished, who rode into office on Ronald Reagan's flowing coattails. The Democrats lost the majority that night. This year, with that G.O.P. class of 1980 up for re-election for the first...
Mecham, who supports and is supported by some members of the John Birch Society, calls himself a constitutionalist, declaring, "It's my firm conviction that the Constitution of this land was brought forth by men who God sent down and inspired to do it." During a 1961 debate he went so far as to claim that President Eisenhower supported socialist policies regarding education. Yet his primary victory seemed to be less an indication of a rightward lurch in Arizona than of resentment against the "Phoenix 40" and other business and political leaders. His nomination sent a message to the "downtown...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...
...county has remained remarkably free of social stress. The relative wealth of the residents (median income: $44,000) is one reason. The population is comparatively homogeneous. Unemployment, at 4%, is nearly 3 points below the national average. Orange remains solidly Republican, but the conservatism is less shrill nowadays: Birch Society types no longer command center stage...
...Democrats for Manion and five Republicans against. The deans of some 40 law schools protested the appointment on the ground that Manion was short on experience and competence. A South Bend, Ind., lawyer who is a former state legislator and son of a leader of the ultraconservative John Birch Society, Manion, 44, has never argued a case before a federal appeals court. The American Bar Association had found Manion "qualified," but that is its lowest passing grade...