Word: democratics
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Largely because he has refused to fit someone else's predetermined mold, Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr., a Democrat who sometimes sounds like a Republican, is the favorite to win the Nov. 5 election and succeed Ronald Reagan as Governor of California. In any circumstances, Brown would be a strikingly unusual candidate, points out TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. A tense and introverted intellectual, Brown spent four years in a Jesuit seminary ("It concentrates your thinking," he says with a half-smile) and cracks jokes in Latin for his press entourage. He has been a follower of Eugene McCarthy...
...impromptu debate before the press, Moretti cried: "What are you, the only holy man around? What do you have, a little statue of yourself you bow down to every night?" Privately Moretti joked: "If I had one wish, I'd want to meet every Democrat in this state between now and the primary. If I had a second wish, I'd want Jerry Brown to meet them...
DUKAKIS V. SARGENT There is little to choose between the two candidates in Massachusetts except that Francis Sargent, 59, is both an incumbant and a Republican in a year when neither is very popular. Democrat Michael Dukakis, 40, who served in the state house of representatives for eight years, can scarcely present himself a newcomer ("Mr. Dukakis has been running for state office long as I have," says Sargent, "but he's been lucky enough to lose and keep himself out of trouble...
LAMM V. VANDERHOOF The environment is the main issue in Colorado, and it would be hard to find a more ardent environmentalist that Democrat Richard Lamm, 39. Minority whip in the state house of representatives, Lamm led the successful fight to keep the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado, on the ground that they would affect thoustands of visitors who would threaten the environment. He sponsored a land-use bilt that lost by a single vote...
...next to nothing in Pennsylvania. Republican Incumbent Richard Schweiker, 48, who is one of few Republican Senators given a perfect voting record by the AFL-CIO, has the support of organized labor and the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, the state's anti-gun-control lobby. Democrat Pete Flaherty, 49,mayor of Pittsburgh is a trustbusting populist who opposes busing, abortion and amnesty. While schweiker appeals to many urban Demacrats. Flaherty has a following among suburban Republicans. With issues in such confusion , Flaherty has tried to tar Swhweiker with Watergate even though Nixon and demanded the president...