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...Senate race; may well make it this time. MICHIGAN. Don Riegle (D) v. Marvin Esch (R): the Democrat seemed a shoo-in until the Detroit News published tapes about Riegle's trysts with a staff member. The race is a squeaker. MISSOURI. Warren Hearnes (D) v. John Danforth (R): ex-Governor Hearnes bears many political scars. NEW YORK. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D) v. Incumbent James Buckley (R-Conservative): the flamboyant Pat leads but the gap is narrowing. PENNSYLVANIA. William Green (D) v. H. John Heinz III (R): the race is still very close...
...Illinois Republican James Thompson, West Virginia Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV). All three are favored. Seven seek Senate seats: Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, former mayor of Indianapolis; Maryland's Democratic Congressman Paul Sarbanes; Michigan's Democratic Congressman Donald Riegle; Missouri's Republican Attorney General John Danforth; Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman H. John Heinz III; Texas' Republican Congressman Alan Steelman; Vermont's Democratic Governor Thomas Salmon. Three and possibly five are expected...
Hearnes's problems are compounded by the formidable qualities of his Republican opponent, John C. Danforth. Danforth built the modern Republican party in Missouri, nurturing its growth during his tenure as attorney general, when he was the only Republican official elected statewide. Heir to the Ralston-Purina fortune, Danforth projects a more youthful, personable image than his opponent. And in a race where the candidates differ only slightly on the issues, image could be the deciding factor...
...DANFORTH'S SURGE. Going into the closing weeks of Missouri's Senate contest, moderate Republican John Danforth, 40, Missouri's attorney general for the past eight years, appears to be pulling away. A gangly (6 ft. 3 in.), ambitious politician who attended Princeton, Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School, Danforth has since 1968 helped to spur a brilliant Republican resurgence in the state which put into office in 1973 the current Governor, Kit Bond, the first Republican to hold that office in Missouri in 30 years. Attorney General Danforth has a deserved "Mr. Clean" image (TIME...
Though normally a wooden campaigner who looks somewhat like an Episcopal rector (which he is), Danforth now crisscrosses the state in a van and tells voters that he wants to be a "pain in the neck" in Washington. He lost a narrow Senate race in 1970, but he is spending heavily against his opponent, ex-Governor Warren E. Hearnes, who is severely tarnished by allegations of scandal in his past administration...