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...GOP attempts to draft former West Virginia Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. in the race against present Gov. John D. Rockefeller IV have so far been unsuccessful. Moore could provide Rockefeller with a tough fight for the seat from which long-time Senator Jennings Randolph is retiring...
Ornstein noted the retirement of respected Republican New York representative, Barner B. Conable Jr., as an example of about a halfdozen senior House GOP members who are stepping down this year...
Republican difficulty in convincing defeated Republicans to run again has forced the GOP to cool its rhetoric. So after the Democrats picked up 28 seats in the 1982 elections, GOP spokesmen talked of 20 more rematches. These days, Vander Jagt boasts of a possible...
Freshman Lane Evans of Illinois faces Kenneth G. McMillan, a hardline conservative who won the 1982 GOP primary over then Rep. Tom Railsback, largely because Railsback was implicated in the Paula Parkinson sex scandal. in Illinois, along with Texas, the Democrats expect to make their biggest House gains, and Evans' district, which is fairly representative of Illinois outside of Chicago, is a watermark for Democratic chances...
...there's no denying the registration game is trickier for the GOP. Most polls, for instance, show that two-thirds of newly registered voters would support the Democrats-a statistic that reflects the deep disaffection that several minority groups have for Reagan. Voter registration could be the campaign fiasco that leaves egg all over the collective GOP face, which is why Republicans are spending so much money for relatively few votes. But they are treading carefully. The Republicans and their allies especially the Chamber of Commerce and the Moral Majority-want to tap only those constituencies they are after...