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...Corps veteran of Peleliu and Okinawa announced that he would run for a fourth term "if the Democratic Party wants me." There was little doubt that it would. His only announced Republican rival is Charles Percy, 46, the Bell & Howell board chairman who failed in a try for the governorship in 1964. Douglas was Percy's economics professor in 1938, a fact that gives him an elder statesman's image but also accentuates what is likely to be a main campaign issue: youth...
...nomination, and no Democratic opponent has yet appeared. There is, in fact, a dearth of Democrats anxious to oppose Hatfield, despite the Democrats' registration edge of 100,000 in Oregon. Hatfield is durable, good-looking and articulate, what he calls "a political animal." Oregon has prospered during his governorship. His legislative record is studded with progressive statutes in the fields of civil rights, welfare and labor relations. He has invested heavily in public community colleges, kept the state treasury in surplus. Thus deprived of ammunition, the Democrats are reduced to accusing him of being merely a shrewd, superficial operator...
Cavanagh's popularity and his strength lead to only one conclusion: that he wishes to seek higher office in Michigan. He is probably more interested in the Senate than in the Governorship, but both of the state's seats are held by Democrats. (Detroit municipal officers are nonpartisan, but Cavanagh is known to be a Democrat.) Senator Philip Hart, who is 51 and was reelected last year by 900,000 votes, is not about to retire, but the other seat, held by 70-year-old Pat McNamara might be up for grabs...
...really terrifying potential of the Reagan campaign is that he may somehow be able to shift California's already unstable voting alignments and actually win the governorship. This would not only propel and appealing right-winger into the ranks of presidential candidates; it would also be a grim portent for the rest of the nation from its most American state
Senate seat in Illinois? The parallel appeals strongly to many Midwestern Republican leaders. Last week they were striving mightily to impress it on Chuck Percy, the Bell & Howell board chair man who narrowly lost his bid for the governorship in last year's G.O.P. debacle. Next year, they urged, Percy should enter the lists against three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 73, a popular paragon of liberalism and a comfortably protected member in good standing of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's well-greased machine...