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...Minute Manager, Blanchard and Johnson...
...Race KAN. John Carlin (D) No Race KY. No Race No Race LA. No Race No Race ME. Joseph E. Brennan (D) George J. Mitchell (D) MD. Harry R. Hughes (D) Paul S. Sarbanes (D) MASS. Michael S. Dukakis (D) Edward M. Kennedy (D) MICH. James J. Blanchard (D) Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D) MINN. Rudy Perpich (D) David Durenberger (R) MISS. No Race John C. Stennis (D) MO. No Race John C. Danforth (R) MONT. No Race John Melcher (D) NEB. Bob Kerrey (D) Edward Zorinsky (D) NEV. Richard Bryan (D) * N.H. John H. Sununu (R) No Race...
...author of a Prop 2 1/2-type tax amendment, came fron nowhere to snatch the Republican nomination from Milliken's hand-picked successor. And so, in the wake of his self-destruction, it is hardly with absolute confidence that Michigan's pundits have tapped Democratic candidate James Blanchard as the hands-down winner in today's election...
...Blanchard's personality--or lack thereof--has a lot to do with the question marks. He too came from oblivion this summer. But instead of rising as Headlee did on the basis of a mesmerizing brand of politics, the four-term state congressman rode the wave of carefully arranged labor and business endorsements. Slightly unkempt and a failed public speaker, Blanchard is a 40-year-old throwback to Democrats of the past. With a crucial role in the federal government's Chrysler bailout as the single feather in his cap, Blanchard has promised massive public works projects, '60-style...
Calling the campaign's three issues "job, job and jobs," Blanchard seems assured of a new job for himself come January. And that is the way it undoubtedly should be. The economic emergency in Michigan prevents any "let-business-do-the-trick" Reaganomic shilly-shallying. But it is a shame that a 300-watt diverted attention away from economic issues. James Blanchard has enjoyed a cakewalk, instead of a race to the wire, which might have transformed him from a Democratic idealist into a much-needed leader...