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...Dollar Bill's" current margin, however, stands only at about 35 per cent to 23 per cent. Bell, backed by a couple of hundred thou in campaign contributions from the Republican National Committee--the largest contribution to any non-incumbent candidate from the GOP--is waging a big media blitz in the last few weeks aimed at the large number of undecided voters. Issuing the standard call for huge tax cuts (of at least 30 per cent), Bell claims that the election is "a referendum on President Carter's economic policies...
...unusually attractive candidate," Frank says. "Unquestionably qualified for the job, personally and professionally," Crampton supporter and State Rep. Mel King says. Yet on the eve of the election, Crampton is fighting to be seen, saying, "Sure, visibility has been a big problem." He just came off a weekend "big blitz" of the state--on the road with three Winnebagos--to talk and press flesh and distribute some 50,000 pieces of campaign literature...
...Consultant Deloss Walker plus $1 million to convince voters through television that he was the fresh face needed to succeed George Wallace. In California, Ken Rietz, a former head of Young Voters for President Nixon, is helping Republican Evelle Younger spend $1.75 million in television money in his final blitz to unseat Governor Jerry Brown...
...forefront of the merchandising blitz are such chains as Waldenbooks, the nation's largest book retailer, owned by Carter Hawley Hale Stores. Begun in 1962, the Walden chain now has 498 shops dotted around the country, mostly in suburban shopping malls. In recent years it has been opening a store a week. B. Dalton, a subsidiary of Dayton Hudson Corp., the department store conglomerate, is the second largest bookseller. Dalton too has been growing at a feverish rate in recent years and has 339 stores in 40 states. Other chains include Doubleday stores, an affiliate of the publishing house...
...MOST RECENT POLL shows Krueger with a three-point lead over Tower, but 17 per cent of the voters are still undecided. Tower, with a two-to-one fundraising advantage, will have an edge in the last weeks of the campaign as he launches a media blitz. But Krueger, who has been campaigning like a whirling dervish since last year, might just pull out a victory. Even if he does, the nation is unlikely to see any substantial change in Texas's leadership on economic issues. And Lone Star liberals will still be waiting for the knight on a white...