Word: hart
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...their 69 congressional seats-as many as six in the bastions of Nebraska and Iowa. In the 13 Western states, the Democrats should pick up at least five and perhaps as many as eleven congressional seats. The most interesting Senate fight is in Colorado, where Democrat Gary Hart, 36, George McGovern's presidential campaign manager in 1972, is trying to link conservative G.O.P. Senator Peter Dominick, 59, to some of the tainted milk money collected for President Nixon's reelection...
COLORADO. He is still given to wearing polished, calf-length boots and three-leaf-clover cuff links, but handsome Gary W. Hart, 36, now a Denver attorney, has matured considerably since he directed George McGovern's campaign in 1972. Running for the Democratic nomination for Senator, Hart took much more pragmatic and moderate positions on defense and social issues than his old mentor did, going so far as to advocate a reduction in welfare doles and a new emphasis on public-service jobs and private employment...
...Hart faced a special problem: he had to distinguish himself from his primary opponent, Herrick S. Roth, 58, who, it so happened, had worked in Colorado for McGovern. Hart's tactic was to attack not Roth but Republican Senator Peter Dominick, 59, who will be running again in November. Hart charged that Dominick, the chairman of the Senate's Republican Campaign Committee, had concealed the source of money received in 1972 from a dairy cooperative and passed it on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. "Hogwash," said Dominick. Hart, he said, was "a liar...
...Hart won by 13,284 votes. "Hart's not a new face," said G.O.P. State Chairman Dwight Hamilton. "He's an old pol, a soul brother of McGovern. He's going to have to answer every one of the issues McGovern stood...
...which Hart snapped: "I don't know what the 'McGovern issues' are. I have my own positions. Besides, I don't know what's wrong with Senator McGovern. We may have made some mistakes, but none of us are in jail. If Dominick runs against McGovern, I'll have no choice but to run against Nixon...