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...open" primary) Maine 4 Maryland 10 Edward Conroy Charies McC. Mathias Massachusetts 14 Michigan 21 Minnesota 10 Mississippi 7 Missouri 12 Thomas Eagleton Gene McNary Joseph P. Teasdale Christopher Bond Montana 4 Ted Schwinden Jack Ramirez Nebraska 5 Nevada 3 Mary Gojack Paul Laxalt New Hampshire 4 John Durkin Warren Rudman Hugh Gallen Meldrim Thomson New Jersey 17 New Mexico 4 New York 41 Elizabeth Holtzman Alfonse D'Amato* North Carolina 13 Robert Morgan John East James Hunt Jr. Beverly Lake Jr. North Dakota 3 Kent Johanneson Mark Andrews Arthur Link Allen Olson Ohio 25 John Glenn James Betts Oklahoma...
...Concord or in Manchester, signs for Reagan and Carter are hard to find. Clearly, the focus of attention has shifted to tight and emotional local races more likely to produce a high turnout. The signs for the state campaigns abound: Gallen vs. Thompson for governor, Durkin vs. Rudman for Senate, all the way down to Francis Sheine for Governor's Council...
Neither candidate is a strict party ideologue. Reversing the usual Democrat-Republican alignment, Durkin strongly backs a proposed constitutional amendment to ban abortion, while Rudman opposes it. More typically for a Democrat, Durkin opposes oil-price deregulation and at every opportunity attacks the oil companies (an especially popular target in chilly New Hampshire, which pays more for its imported heating oil than most other states). Rudman supports deregulation but urges that the windfall-profits tax on oil companies be used to buy home heating oil for the poor...
...candidates' sharpest disputes involve money. Rudman attacks Durkin as the candidate of organized labor because Durkin, in his first campaign, received $100,000 from out-of-state labor unions; this year, he has again collected $100,000 from them. By contrast, Rudman has refused to accept donations from non-New Hampshire political-action committees. The strategy so confused national Republicans that they considered not sending him the $75,000 earmarked for his campaign until he made it clear that he would accept the money. Durkin promptly called him "Waffling Warren...
...issue, the race is probably the least costly Senate contest in the country. Each candidate plans to spend only about $350,000. Thus the outcome may turn largely on the candidates' campaign styles. Rudman is jovial and smooth, a "pussycat," as one campaign follower says. By contrast, Durkin is blunt and brusque; even Wife Pat concedes that "John isn't the smoothest character in town." But this is no handicap in New Hampshire, where voters prefer their politicians to be flinty...