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...with startling success. Employing such methods, Hubert Humphrey won re-election to the Senate in 1970 by one of the largest margins of his career; in a year when voter totals were down, the turnout in Democratic districts in Minnesota rose from 7% to 20%. Similarly, Senator Quentin Burdick of North Dakota was thought to be in a close race, but he turned to the technologists and won by almost a 2-to-l margin. In Nashville, Tenn., skeptical but desperate backers of former Senator Albert Gore utilized the computer technique, and Gore carried the city. "If we had done...
...York's Metropolitan Museum of Art unblinkingly accepted a large card collection donated by Jefferson Burdick, a Syracuse ad salesman. The Burdick collection includes cards on everything from battleships to movie stars and is shown by appointment only. Says Roberta Wong, a librarian at the Met: "Each period has its representative minor art. Why shouldn't we have bubble-gum cards...
Farther west, Nixon had selected five incumbent Democratic Senators as likely targets for unseating: North Dakota's Quentin Burdick, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Utah's Frank Moss, New Mexico's Joseph Montoya and Nevada's Howard Cannon. Conservatives were recruited to run well-financed campaigns against the ostensibly vulnerable quintet. Campaigners from Washington hustled through. Agnew anointed Moss "the Western regional chairman of the Radic-Lib Eastern Establishment." Moss was re-elected easily, and the four other Democrats also won. Three of the Republicans put up against the incumbent Senators were House members; Democrats captured those three seats...
Four sparsely populated Western states with Democratic Senators were the special targets of Nixon-Agnew assaults. In all four the voters returned the incumbents to office with convincing majorities. Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada, Sen. Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Sen. Gale McGee of Wyoming, and Sen. Frank Moss of Utah all won with better than 55 per cent...
NORTH DAKOTA: Liberal Democratic Senator Quentin Burdick is in deep trouble in a state where Agnew is a magic word. Burdick's opponent is Rep. Tom Kleppe who says he is running "because President Nixon asked me to." The war, social legislation, and the economy are major issues, with Kleppe against all three. He has secured the aid of Harry Teleaven, the Madison Ave. executive who directed the advertising campaign of Richard Nixon in 1968. Kleppe is favored...