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...Democrats Republicans Alabama 9 James E. Folsom Jeremiah Denton Alaska 3 Clark Gruening Frank H. Murkowski Arizona 6 William R. Schulz Barry Goldwater Arkansas 6 Dale Bumpers Bill Clark Bill Clinton Frank White Califomia 45 Alan Cranston Paul Gann Colorado 7 Gary Hart Mary Estill Buchanan Connecticut 8 Christopher Dodd James Buckley Delaware 3 William Gordy Pierre Du Pont IV D.C. 3 Florida 17 Georgia 12 Herman Talmadge Mack Mattingly Hawaii 4 Daniel Inouye Cooper Brown Idaho 4 Frank Church Steven Symms Illinois 26 Alan J. Dixon David O'Neal Indiana 13 Birch Bayh Dan Quayle John Hillenbrand...
...Connecticut race for the Senate seat vacated by three-term Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn) offers a refreshing palliative to the overly personalized presidential contest. James Buckley, former New York senator in the '70s and Christopher Dodd, popular three-term congressman from Connecticut, present clear ideological choices, opposing each other on just about every issue...
Buckley, the conservative, and elder brother of William F. Buckley Jr., advocates a 10 per cent across-the-board tax cut, the rejection of the SALT II treaty and a bigger defense budget. Dodd, the liberal Democrat, opposes a tax cut on inflationary grounds, favors SALT II and calls for only limited increases in defense spending. While Buckley wants a diminished presence of the federal Government in the lives of Americans, Dodd focuses on the need for more effective government involvement...
Buckley faults Dodd as a big spender and for "consistently supporting Carter's willingness to allow the U.S. strategic position to erode." Buckley favors a bigger defense budget, a 10% tax cut and total decontrol of energy prices. Like many other liberals this year, Dodd calls for a moderate buildup of conventional military forces and restoration of price controls on all domestic...
Though Buckley is outspending Dodd by 2 to 1, he needs a sizable slice of the independent and Democratic blue-collar vote if he is going to win. But for the moment at least, that part of the electorate seems reasonably content with his liberal Democratic opponent, even in what is supposed to be a conservative year...