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With its shifting mix of Hispanics, oil entrepreneurs and Yankee yuppie transplants, Texas has as many constituencies as it has recipes for five-alarm chili. Republican Phil Gramm and Democrat Lloyd Doggett have been trying to cope with this volatile hodgepodge as they crisscross the state in their quest to win the Senate seat held by retiring Republican John Tower. The Lone Star candidates are as sharply dissimilar as the voters they are courting. Comments San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Doggett supporter: "No one can say it's hard to tell the candidates apart...
Senate Candidates Paul Simon, D., Ill., $387,892 Charles Percy, R., Ill., $368,024 Jim Hunt, D., N.C., $321,038 Thad Cochran, R., Miss., $310,213 Phil Gramm, R., Texas...
...begun to doubt their party. "I haven't thought of any great movement to bring that about," he said. "But it is happening increasingly. You saw a Democrat speaking at the Republican National Convention-Jeane Kirkpatrick. We have seen some of our Congressmen change. One of them, Phil Gramm from Texas, realized he could no longer follow the leadership of his party. I thought it was significant in the '76 primaries when Democrats could vote in a Republican primary and vice versa-I won those states...
TEXAS. Last August, when Republican John Tower announced he was retiring from the Senate, the news caught the party off guard. No one had been groomed to succeed the spunky, conservative 23-year Senate veteran. Congressman Phil Gramm, a former Democratic "boll weevil" who co-sponsored President Reagan's budget-cutting legislation in 1981 and 1982, converted to the G.O.P. in 1983 and is now the leading contender for the party's nomination. Running on his "proven record as an effective leader," Gramm has the advantage of appealing to conservative Democrats and independents. His strongest opponent is Moderate...
Texas, where Sen. John Tower is retiring, presents a different situation, because a difficult Democratic primary is expected before the winner faces likely Republican nominee Rep. Phil Gramm. Tower squeaked by with 50 percent in his 1978 election...