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CALIFORNIA. Incumbent John Tunney (D) v. S.I. Hayakawa (R): like Dad, Tunney may win the decision. INDIANA. Vance Hartke (D) v. Richard Lugar (R): Lugar lost a 1974 Senate race; may well make it this time. MICHIGAN. Don Riegle (D) v. Marvin Esch (R): the Democrat seemed a shoo-in...
Indiana--No one in the Senate has survived as many "squeakers" as Vance Hartke, a Democrat from Indiana. He narrowly won his seat in 1958 and in 1970 he defeated then-Representative Richard Roudebush by only 4283 votes. In both cases, the victories were unexpected. Hartke's bag of surprises...
Lugar ran a close race in 1974 against Senator Birch Bayh, a far more popular figure in the state than Hartke. Despite his dubious distinction of being "Richard Nixon's favorite mayor," Lugar projects an image of integrity and freshness to the voters.
He points out that he reduced property taxes five times during his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis and left office this year with a surplus of $4.5 million. Lately, Lugar, who has a stiff campaign manner, has loosened up his style, shedding his conservative business suits for bright blazers...
Mainstream American politicians like Gerald Ford and Vance Hartke are looking for a graceful way to close the books on U.S. involvement in Indochina. The hawks of the war era, men like Ford who wanted to beat back the advance of communism in Southeast Asia, are humiliated by America's...