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...There are no ideas out there." Washington Post editorial writer Michael Barone says. "That's gonna hurt a big Republican coattail, because large coattails come when the people have something substantative to vote...
...Governor, he should be a shoo-in to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph. So why is Rockefeller running so hard? Because he remembers 1972 and the last G.O.P. landslide. "I went through the McGovern year," he says of his initial, unsuccessful run for Governor. "The coattail effect this year, the potential for a Reagan victory, is something I have to factor in." Indeed, last week Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, declared the West Virginia seat one of three he believes might be taken from the Democratic column...
Such hopes, however, hang on the very tattered threads of the "coattail" theory. Revisionist political scientists, looking back over old elections with new eyes, now wonder if coattails ever were very important. They point out that in the past 24 years, three winning Presidents have actually run behind their party's candidates for the House. In Politics, Presidents and Coattails, Political Scientist Malcolm Moos concludes: "The coattail influence of the presidential candidate has been demonstrated to be of minor significance...
...window rubbing down my camera in anticipation of getting some pictures of Harvard students when we finally got there, I found Harvard allusions creeping into the tour. When we stopped to see Paul Revere's House in North Boston, the guide inside was telling us about the coattail chair at one end of a table. It had three posts coming up above the seat, two in front and one in back. There were no obstructions between them so man in tails could put one tail out to each side...
...Laird's successor, State Senator Walter J. Chilsen felt pretty good about his chances. Chilsen, 45, a former television newscaster from Wausau, felt so good, in fact, that he rather imprudently billed his campaign as "a referendum on the Nixon Administration." That was hardly the case, but his coattail reference may well haunt the G.O.P. While Chilsen conducted a languid campaign, Democratic State Assemblyman David Obey (pronounced Oh-bee) ran at full throttle all the way and edged his opponent, 63,592 votes...