Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MEXICO. The New Mexico seat that aging, ailing Liberal Democrat Clinton Anderson, 77, decided to surrender after 24 years will probably fall to a conservative Republican in this election. Former Albuquerque Mayor Pete V. Domenici, 40, who ran for Governor two years ago and lost, is expected to make it for higher office this time. The margin of his predicted win over Banker and Insurance Man Jack Daniels, 48, depends to a certain extent on personality. Domenici is a breathless, ebullient crowd pleaser, while strong, low-key Jack Daniels, in contrast, is a diffident public speaker who prefers to press...
...OREGON. Oregonians are calling it the maverick election. Wayne L. Morse, who shifted from Republican to Independent to Democrat during a 24-year Senate career, is attempting a comeback against Mark O. Hatfield, a Republican Senator so divorced from party positions that he skipped the G.O.P. Convention and has answers ready whenever voters question his differences with President Nixon. "Each man is an individual with whom party loyalty and responsibility are secondary concepts," suggests former Congressman Robert Duncan, who has run unsuccessfully for the Senate against both Hatfield and Morse. But that, plus the fact that both men are staunch...
This year two personable contestants face one another in the Twelfth. Democrat Gerry Studds, 35, is a former prep school teacher and Foreign Service officer who even learned Portuguese to improve his image among immigrant New Bedford voters. Opponent William Weeks, 46, is strictly Brahmin: Father Sinclair was Dwight Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; Grandfather John was Coolidge's Secretary of War. After graduating from Harvard, Weeks himself served for a time as an assistant dean of freshmen at the college. The two are running neck and neck, but McGovern liberalism is hurting Studds...
...song. It goes, "Jane Pickens Langley is a woman who cares./ Jane Pickens Langely is a woman who dares./ So pick good Pickens." This singing commercial, taped in German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish, underpins a breezy, almost folksy campaign against Incumbent Edward I. Koch, 47, a hard-working Democrat. In his appearances at subway and bus stops, Koch stresses his attempts to wrest mass-transportation money from road-subsidy funds, and emphasizes his recent proposal to admit Soviet Jews and Asian Ugandans to the U.S. without regard to immigration quotas. Given Koch's popularity in the Silk Stocking District...
...Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 45, the maverick Republican from Northern California who waged a quixotic campaign against Nixon in the presidential primaries, now finds himself in a tightening race against James Stewart, 35, a similarly liberal lawyer and Democrat who McCloskey once said "would make a great Congressman if he has the privilege to beat me in November." At the beginning of the campaign, both men agreed to a schedule of 33 debates; so far, only 13 have been held, and the tone has been more courteous than antagonistic. Their major point of disagreement is over whether McCloskey has become...