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...year ago, it looked as if there would be no real race. Mark Odom Hatfield, 44, the trim, Hollywood-handsome Republican Governor, seemed assured of election to the U.S. Sen ate seat of retiring Democrat Maurine Neuberger. Hatfield has eight solidly progressive years behind him in the Salem stalehouse, is well known and well liked throughout the state, and is one of the G.O.P.'s most talked about prospects for national office. Then, last July, his constituents learned that Hatfield had re fused for the second year running to support a motion endorsing the Administration's Viet...
...other single national issue has yet begun to dominate the races for 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 35 governorships. Viet Nam has become a major debating point in Oregon, where Republican Governor Mark Hatfield is in deep trouble in his bid for the Senate because of his soft stand. It may also decide the outcome of several House races, where independent peace candidates might take votes from hard-pressed Democratic freshmen such as Michigan's Weston Vivian and New York's Lester Wolff. So far, however, no candidate of either party who ran on an antiwar...
...will indicate more clearly the effects of Vietnam up for re-election until 1968. The most interesting, and probably the most significant, contest this year is in Morse's home state of Oregon. There the Democratic candidate, Robert Duncan, is a strong Administration supporter, while the Republican, Governor Mark Hatfield, is trying to take a position somewhere between Duncan's and Morse...
...Democratic primary May 24, Duncan decisively defeated Morse's candidate, Howard Morgan, with the help of the state AFL-CIO. Morse, always a maverick (he used to be a Republican himself) is quietly supporting Hatfield and predicts that he will win in November. The outcome is far from clear. Both candidates are effective campaigners and proven vote-getters, and there will probably be considerable crossing of party lines...
...entirely silent on an issue that is on everyone's mind. At last year's Governors Conference all members present endorsed President Johnson's conduct of the war, with the exceptions of Romney of Michigan (who later adhered to the endorsing resolution when he learned what it meant) and Hatfield of Oregon...