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...organizers of the contest had picked the eight Senate races the New York Times had chosen as most hotly contested. There was Moffet and Weicker in Connecticut, Laudenberg and Fenwick in New Jersey, Wilson and Hatch in Utah. And for the clincher, a tie breaker: "Pick the number of the net gain of Democratic seats in the House of Representatives." The winner of all of this, of course, was to win the pot, as well as all the money collected from entrants...
...Atiyeh (R) No Race PA. Dick Thomburgh (R) John Heinz (R) R.I. J. Joseph Garrahy (D) * S.C. Richard W. Riley (D) No Race S.D. William J. Janklow (R) No Race TENN. Lamar Alexander (R) Jim Sasser (D) TEX. Mark White (D) Lloyd Bentsen (D) UTAH No Race Orrin G. Hatch (R) VT. Richard A. Snelling (R) Robert T. Stafford (R) VA. No Race Paul S. Trible Jr. (R) WASH. No Race Henry M. Jackson (D) W. VA. No Race Robert C. Byrd (D) WIS. Anthony S. Earl (D) William Proxmire (D) WYO. Ed Herschler (D) Malcom Wallop (R) Projections...
Unable to command the Mormon vote directly--both candidates are Mormon, and the church almost never makes open political endorsements--Wilson supporters have stressed Hatch's active national involvement and have energetically harped on the senator's apparent neglect of Utah in favor of the national stage...
...Hatch backers retaliate by accusing Wilson of financial inefficiency, saying he will bring the state the same high spending, high tax policies he used in Salt Lake City. They charge too that Wilson knows he cannot win Hatch's seat, but wants to solidify his party base for a 1984 try for governor...
Besides dismissing such claims as "garbage," Wilson supporters have gotten some mileage out of Hatch's perceived coldness and aloofness, while trying to portray Wilson as a warm and trusting person. The implications, though, do not appear to take the mayor far enough to overtake the incumbent's popularity at home. Though his own communications director concedes that Hatch is not "warm and fuzzy," the Republican is the favorite going...