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...campaign uses a sleek series of voter-in-the-street encounters to ask the significance of the number 1,083. After a series of wild guesses -- a new tax form? the year the Normans conquered England? -- a narrator supplies the answer: the number of floor votes Democratic Candidate John Breaux has missed in 14 years in the House of Representatives...
...Breaux promptly struck back in kind. What is the significance of the number 1,083? the narrator asks. After more guesses -- the number of games lost by the New Orleans Saints? the highest temperature this August? -- comes the Democratic answer: the average number of jobs Louisiana loses each week thanks to Republican policies. As candidates increasingly try to skewer their opponents, they can sometimes discover the joke is on them...
...this year, normally votes with the President. But on the trade bill Kramer voted against Reagan. Joining him was Tim Wirth, the Democratic candidate for the Hart seat. Republican Congressman Henson Moore of Louisiana used to be an ardent free trader. But he is running against ! Democratic Congressman John Breaux for the Senate, and both voted for the bill...
...political firm, Black, Manafort represents Democrats and Republicans alike--and sometimes candidates running for the same seat. Kelly, for instance, is doing some fund raising for Democratic Senate Candidates John Breaux in Louisiana, Bob Graham in Florida and Patrick Leahy in Vermont. Atwater and Black are consultants for the Republican opponents in these contests. In the race for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, Atwater advises Bush, while Stone advises Kemp. Stone and Atwater's offices are right across the hall from each other, prompting one congressional aide to ask facetiously, "Why have primaries for the nomination? Why not have...
...Congress. Even such liberals as Idaho Democrat Frank Church and New York Republican Jacob Javits, the ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have asked the State Department to reconsider the treaty, which requires Senate ratification. A similar appeal to President Carter has come from Congressman John Breaux of Louisiana. In the face of this growing clamor, Carter has ordered an Administration task force to take a second, hard look at the pact...