Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kentucky Democrat Walter D. Huddleston, 46, is generally known as "Dee," from hi? middle initial. The nickname was a handy one during his successful campaign for the Senate seat vacated by Republican John Sherman Cooper. As state senate majority leader, Huddleston helped repeal a 5% sales tax on food items that Kentuckians vigorously resented; the tax, as it happened, had been raised by his opponent, former Governor Louie B. Nunn (no kin to Georgia's new Senator Sam Nunn). Huddleston labeled Oct. 1, when the tax repeal on food items took effect, as "Dee-day" and reminded voters...
...sales tax increase, and the fact that Nunn ran for Governor in 1967 on a no-new-tax platform, so irritated voters that Huddleston made it the foundation of a strong campaign. Tuesday became another Dee-day, and Huddleston emerged as the first Kentucky Democrat in the U.S. Senate in 18 years...
...consistent conservative who in the past has supported re- peal of the federal income tax, and more recently opposed a Government rat-extermination program ("In Payette we kill our own rats"). He ran a smooth campaign against Idaho State University President William E. Davis, 43, shrewdly tying the moderate Democrat to unpopular McGovern positions. When it came out that Davis endorsed the farm workers' lettuce boycott, Mc-Clure staffers passed the word: "Will a potato boycott be next...
...times, the contest in Tennessee's Sixth District resembled a rehash of war games. Incumbent Democrat William Anderson, 62, made references to the fact that he had skippered the nuclear-powered Nautilus under the North Pole; Republican Challenger Robin Beard, 33, recently the state personnel commissioner, countered by noting that his Marine unit had handled the offshore recovery of a Gemini space shot. In the end, however. Beard won for far more prosaic reasons?the district had been redrawn to include 51,000 white, conservative voters, mostly from a Shelby County suburb appropriately named "Whitehaven...
...Even though he did not run for any office, George Wallace suffered a setback at the polls and in his own home county. In the race for Alabama's Second District seat, he put much of his prestige behind a little-known Democrat named Ben Reeves, the district attorney of Harbour County. His motive was not just neighborliness: Reeves, 36, argues his cases before George's brother, Judge Jack Wallace, and is married to Wallace's cousin. But Wallace's efforts could not overcome the advantages of incumbency, and Republican Congressman William Dickinson, 47, kept his seat...