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...State. Danforth, 46, an Episcopal priest, heir to the Ralston Purina fortune and Missouri attorney general for eight years before becoming a Senator in 1976, is outspending Woods 2 to 1 and trading on his enormous personal popularity in the state. "Everybody likes Danforth," concedes Missouri Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton. As recently as last month, Danforth held a 15-point lead over Woods. But no longer: in its most recent poll, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat showed the race a tie at 47% apiece. Analysts point out that Danforth's 1976 victory was the only Republican...
...committee members were skeptical, and Mullen admits his testimony may have been too "positive" and "sweeping." With last week's more serious claims that Mullen chose not to ferret out more damaging allegations against Donovan, a new congressional inquiry may be in the offing. Says Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton, a member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee: "The aroma is so pungent that I think there will be hearings...
When Williams finished, they began rising one by one to urge his expulsion. The decisive blow was struck by Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, a fellow Democrat and longtime Williams friend. Said he: "Senator Williams has not had the good grace to withdraw from this body. We should not perpetuate our own disgrace by asking him to stay." California Democrat Alan Cranston offered a last-ditch substitute resolution merely to censure Williams on the grounds that the FBI had improperly entrapped him, but the motion garnered little support and was never brought to a vote...
...responsible for a most ambitious crusade: it drew up a "hit list" of key Democratic liberal Senators, including Idaho's Frank Church, South Dakota's George McGovern, Indiana's Birch Bayh, Iowa's John Culver, California's Alan Cranston and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton. In the end, only Cranston and Eagleton managed to win. The New Right claims it helped defeat the other four, but the evidence is inconclusive...
Says Cuff Zukin, poll director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics: "We are overconsumed with predicting what will happen. Polls predicting who is going to win the election are worthless. First, they can be very inaccurate at the time of the election be cause they are only accurate at the time they are taken...