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Mapping his own breakneck campaign, Republican Chamberlain must work with different equations. He knows that a huge Genesee County turnout, born of economic unrest, could swallow him up. He has therefore thrown most of his remarkable energies into holding his own in labor's county. "I will lose the county," he says, "but I'm trying to keep my losses to a minimum. I'm trying to let the laboring man know that there is nothing inconsistent with my being a Republican and being interested in the welfare of the individual worker." Even while trying to stave...
Tuned Embodiment. Like most northern congressional campaigns, the race in Michigan's Sixth District is a tossup. But in his fight to win, Chuck Chamberlain stands out-perhaps as much as any other beleaguered member of the House-as the hustling, aggressive, inexhaustible, politically tuned embodiment of what it takes to run for re-election to Congress. To begin with, he has a running start because he knows and understands his district through personal identification. He was born on an Ingham County farm, heir to three generations of Ingham County farmers ; he worked as a youth in Lansing...
When Prosecutor Chamberlain squeaked past Representative Don Hayworth in 1956, he was one of only nine U.S. Republicans to oust incumbent Democrats from House seats. He landed in Washington with bright expectations: "I was kind of steamed up about being on the team and finding out who the quarterback was." He found out all right: the only quarterback for Chuck Chamberlain was Chuck Chamberlain. "My God," he recalls, "the Welcome Wagon came out to see Mrs. Chamberlain when we had the electric meter hooked up, but nobody from the Republican high command came around to see me." From House Republican...
Spreading the Word. Newcomer Chamberlain found that voting with his district was not nearly as easy as it sounded. Capitol Hill is 500 miles from Lansing, Mich.; the political stand that appears perfectly obvious in Washington may be twisted completely out of shape by the Sixth District's crosscurrents. It was up to Chamberlain to assess correctly the interests of his district on all the hundreds of issues coming up in the House...
...Chamberlain began looking around, comparing notes with his colleagues to see how they met the problem of maintaining common bonds with their districts. He joined the Michigan Republican delegation at breakfast every other week, became a regular at the weekly Tuesday-afternoon sessions of the Acorn Club, an informal organization of freshmen Republican Congressmen who shared with Chamberlain the problem of learning. Such group meetings were helpful, but Chamberlain was still the only Representative from the Sixth District of Michigan, and slowly, painfully, he developed his own system of keeping pace with the folks back home...