Word: cranston
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...Number of Democratic candidates on the 1984 New Hampshire primary ballot: Eight--Gary Hart, Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Ernest Hollings, Alan Cranston, Reuben Askew, and George McGovern...
Perhaps the toughest task before the new Senate majority will be speaking in a unified voice. There may be a skirmish for the soul of the party between the Kennedy-Cranston Old Guard and a neoliberal faction led by such Senators as Joe Biden of Delaware and Georgia's Sam Nunn. The Democrats have historically been a party of competing factions. Sometimes, as when Southern segregationists of old were filibustering the civil rights legislation of their Northern colleagues, there has been open warfare. The struggle this time around will be more subdued...
...anything, this year's Senate campaigns were among the least issueoriented in a long while. Most of the contact between candidates and and electorate occurred via television. And most of that was through negative ads hominem. I probably shook more hands at my bar mitzvah than either Alan Cranston or Ed Zschau did this fall in the entire state of California...
Democratic Senator Alan Cranston held off a tough challenge from Republican Ed Zschau. In the race for the state house, first-term incumbent George Deukmejian easily beat the 68-year-old Black mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley...
...Nevada Republican Hopeful Jim Santini is locked in a dead heat with Democratic Congressman Harry Reid. Several contests in which Republican incumbents seemed secure -- North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin -- have narrowed in recent weeks, renewing hope for Democratic challengers. But some Democrats are also shaky: in addition to California, with Cranston's problems, three states with retiring Democratic incumbents -- Colorado, Louisiana and Missouri -- have races that are too close to call...