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...appeal of the Reagan message has no doubt helped the Southern branch of the class of '80, ultraconservative Republicans with unremarkable first-term records, like Mack Mattingly of Georgia and Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. The latest polls show Mattingly leading his underfunded liberal rival, Congressman Wyche Fowler, by 18 points. The factious and disorganized Democratic Party in Alabama has been unable to help Congressman Richard Shelby wage an effective attack; he trails Denton by nearly 25 points...
...between a real Democrat and an imitation, they chose the genuine article." If "real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving the party to the center but lost to Wyche Fowler, the most liberal Congressmen in the state. In New York, John Dyson had ample money and mushy moderate ideas; he lost to Mark Green, a pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew...
...resulting blend of politics and commercial advertising techniques can sometimes be startling. Democratic Senate Hopeful Wyche Fowler of Georgia satirizes the American Express commercials by strolling through a rack of clothes asking "Do you know me? I'm Congressman Wyche Fowler, and I think you are paying too much interest on bank credit cards." California's Republican Senate candidate Ed Zschau piggybacks on the popularity of Bartles & Jaymes cooler commercials by featuring two good ol' boys sitting on a front porch musing about the number of floor votes missed by Incumbent Democrat Alan Cranston. "Three hundred forty-seven of them...
...contest for the U.S. Senate nomination, Democratic Representative Wyche Fowler defeated Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff in Jimmy Carter's White House. But Fowler faces a formidable rival in November, when he tries to unseat conservative Republican Senator Mack Mattingly...
...Fowler, far more urbane and polished, is stronger in Atlanta. He has a wry sense of humor, which he uses to deflect Jordan's charge that he is too far to the left. It reminds him, Fowler smiles, of the time he was marching in a small-town parade and heard an old country boy on the sidewalk growl, "That Fowler even looks like a liberal, don't he?" With its city-slicker vs. good- ole-boy flavor, the Fowler-Jordan race is in some ways a reflection of the Bond-Lewis contest...