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...Lori A. Forman, who did polling for Shamie as well as other major GOP candidates this year, said that "as a rule of thumb, an incumbent who does not pull 60 percent shows vulnerability...
Analysts have attributed these defeats--along with bouncing two GOP incumbents out of office--to the issue that dominated state races around the country; the economy. The Democrats wanted to draw clear distinctions on issues like unemployment and social security, making the elections a veritable "referendum" on Reaganomics, notes Gary Pierce, press secretary to the Democratic governor James Hunt, who campaigned hard around the state for the party's slate. No surprise here...
Last week's aggregate returns can be understood only as a reaction to the last two years of Republican rule. In the House of Representatives, the GOP lost some 26 seats, more than twice the midterm average; in almost no case did a conservative challenger unseat a liberal incumbent. In the Senate, despite the fact that the vast majority of seats up for grabs were held by Democrats, the Republicans only barely clung to their slim majority. At the state level, Democratic candidates took seven of the 14 contested governor ships previously held by Republicans. They also won control...
...good example is incumbent GOP Sen. John Chafee Rhode Island. He put as much distance between himself and Reagan as he could, but nonetheless is still awaiting the final count of absentee ballots to assure his reelection...
Those re-elected Republicans plus another eight moderate GOP senators whose terms expire in 1984, are likely to weave an independent course over the next two years, which may not parallel Reagan's agenda...