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...speeeches, lunch with one group, dinner with another, and visits with relatives and supporters--neither exciting nor enlightening. In an attempt to avoid angering anyone, his descriptions are all painfully complimentary. Cyrus Vance is a man of great "sincerity;" Ronald Reagan has "personal charm;" and former Senator John Culver is knowledgeable and articulate. Everyone in government seems a saint caught in a crazy system...
N.C.P.A.C. was responsible for a most ambitious crusade: it drew up a "hit list" of key Democratic liberal Senators, including Idaho's Frank Church, South Dakota's George McGovern, Indiana's Birch Bayh, Iowa's John Culver, California's Alan Cranston and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton. In the end, only Cranston and Eagleton managed to win. The New Right claims it helped defeat the other four, but the evidence is inconclusive...
ACCORDING to "Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report," many Senate races were particularly riddled with local commercials slandering Democratic incumbents--especially those on the hit-list of NCPAC staged a specific media project, "Target '80," aimed at shooting down five liberal Democrats: George McGovern, Birch Bayh, John Culver '54, Alan Cranston and Frank Church. All but Cranston, whose opposition was weak, fell to the NCPAC firing squad. The commercials used by the independent committee may tell...
Iowa. The Scriptures have served as ammunition in many battles over the centuries, yet their prominence in the Iowa contest was startling. Trading biblical quotations blow for blow, Democratic Incumbent John' Culver, 48, fought evangelicals and fundamentalists who backed his G.O.P. opponent, Congressman Charles Grassley, 47. Culver even wrestled one of his foes to the ground when the man grew violent at a rally. Culver may have won the wrestling match, but he lost the battle to Grassley...
...contrast to Culver's stormy stumping, the tall, lanky, rather disheveled Grassley took a low-keyed approach. At his best with small groups, he supported standard conservative positions. In the final weeks of the campaign, he made an effort to broaden his appeal by touring-the state with Robert Ray, Iowa's popular and moderate Republican Governor...