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...involved in the political fight of his career. Some polls show this most outspoken of Senate doves running as far as twenty-five percentage points behind his Democratic primary opponent Robert Duncan. Ex-Congressman Duncan came within a small cluster of votes of beating Senator Mark Hatfield...
Both Duncan and Morse are articulate, persuasive campaigners. Each is hard-working an any activity. Morse will be 68; Duncan, 48. Morse's under-dog position is ascribed to a number of factors, especially his position on Vietnam, his efforts to curb certain recent national strikes, his endorsement of Hatfield against Duncan in 1966, and his frank, sometimes blunt statements about a variety of matters...
...breaker went about mending some fences in an effort to stop an upstart challenger who has steadily led in polls and straw votes. The challenger is not a Republican, but former Democratic Representative Robert Duncan - the same man Morse spurned when Duncan ran for the Senate against Republican Mark Hatfield in 1966. Since his defeat (by 24,000 out of 685,000 votes), Duncan, a gregarious Portland lawyer, has never stopped running, pausing last month only long enough to celebrate his 47th birthday and to announce that he will oppose Morse in the May primary...
...possibilities for button makers and punsters are limitless. Romney? How about DUZ DID IT? Morton? Easy -THE SALT OF THE EARTH. Hatfield? THE REAL MCCOY. The Governor of Colorado? ALL FOR LOVE. Percy? MERCY! Or Ford? LORD! Retired Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, an all-out hawk who has announced his interest in running, could campaign under the banner, BOMBS AWAY WITH CURT LEMAY...
...majority of war critics were "no longer just a handful of left-footed erratics," Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield complained that "misleading the American public" has been a "consistent policy of the Administration...