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...Jack Ramirez Nebraska 5 Nevada 3 Mary Gojack Paul Laxalt New Hampshire 4 John Durkin Warren Rudman Hugh Gallen Meldrim Thomson New Jersey 17 New Mexico 4 New York 41 Elizabeth Holtzman Alfonse D'Amato* North Carolina 13 Robert Morgan John East James Hunt Jr. Beverly Lake Jr. North Dakota 3 Kent Johanneson Mark Andrews Arthur Link Allen Olson Ohio 25 John Glenn James Betts Oklahoma 8 Andy Coats Don Nickles Oregon 6 Ted Kulongoski Bob Packwood Pennsylvania 27 Pete Flaherty Arlen Specter Rhode Island 4 Joseph Garrahy Vincent Cianci South Carolina 8 Emest Hollings Marshall Mays South Dakota...
...winds that fill Ronald Reagan's spreading sails as he seeks the presidency; these are the same winds that blew across America's prairies this winter, spring and summer. The gale force conservative bluster was supposed to blow away liberal senators Frank Church of Idaho, George McGovern of South Dakota, John Culver of Iowa and Birch Bayh of Indiana like so many mobile homes in the path of a tornado. But now it seems that the eye of the storm might, just might, have passed and that the winds of the hurricane have turned back upon themselves...
...Midwestern states. To help court votes, Reagan has recruited Robert Billings, one of the organizers of Moral Majority, to be a campaign aide and envoy to Christian churchmen. Billings believes that the right-wing evangelical vote could be decisive in six states: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho and South Dakota. Says Billings: "We won't win them all, but we won't lose them all either...
...crime and deadly sin." The unnamed targets: pro-choice Congressional Candidates Barney Frank and James Shannon. The letter caused bitter debate about whether the church had improperly taken a hand in partisan politics, a frequent question throughout the U.S. during this election year. In April, for instance, a South Dakota priest wrote colleagues across the state urging them to support an anti-abortion candidate who was opposing pro-choice Senator George McGovern...
McGovern has come from behind five times to win election in South Dakota, but this year he predicts only that "it's going to be a tough finish." Win or lose, he promises that this will be his last campaign...