Word: democratic
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Telling voters that "this time the choice is clear," Jepsen had hit hard at Clark's liberal record. The Democrat was denounced for being pro-union and for backing costly Government social-welfare programs, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. He paid dearly for his liberal stand on abortion. Right-to-life groups distributed hundreds of thousands of brochures that depicted a fetus and urged votes against Clark. Said a Jepsen aide: "Inflation and taxes really were the overriding things. People are just tired of them...
Robert Griffin, 55, to his dismay, bucked the voting trend. Michigan's G.O.P. Senator was one of the nation's few conservative incumbents to be defeated by a liberal. In his bid for a third Senate term, he lost (47% to 53%) to Democrat Carl Levin, 44, the former president of Detroit's city council...
Floyd Haskell, 62, was described by Jimmy Carter as "a national treasure." But Coloradans disagree. By a 59%-to-41% vote, they rejected Democrat Haskell's try for a second U.S. Senate term and in his place elected G.O.P. Congressman William Armstrong...
Thomas McIntyre, 63, has been pulverizing ultra-rightist opponents in New Hampshire since his first election to the Senate in 1962. But last week, in a stunning upset, Democrat McIntyre was ousted. By 49% to 51%, he lost his Senate seat to conservative Republican Gordon Humphrey, 38, a co-pilot for Allegheny Airlines...
...Manhattan's silk stocking district, William Green, an heir to the Grand Union supermarket chain, retained his seat in Congress by defeating Democrat Carter Burden, a scion of the Vanderbilt family. The pair spent $850,000 on the race, about half from their own fortunes, seeking a job that pays $57,500 a year...