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Hunt is quick to challenge the Helms-Reagan association, pointing out that Helms has often opposed the President on many of the administration's most centrist policies.
"People realize that Sen. Helms is different from President Reagan," Hunt told reporters recently. "People know the difference, and they're just not going to buy that business of him being so close to Reagan ... they're going to distinguish in this race."
Helms holds a slim lead, due in large part to Reagan's popularity in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans three-to-one. But Hunt is confident that his superior get-out-the-vote organization will make up the difference.
While the campaign has been waged almost exclusively over the television airwaves for the last 18 months, both men have hit the hustings for the home stretch. Helms, a tall and grandfatherly Southern gentleman with a quick temper, tours the state in "Avocado One," a green and white recreational vehicle...
Across the state, Helms, the champion of the New Right, blasts at Hunt, calling the two-term governor a "racist," a "felon," and a "consummate liar." Hunt, whose billing as a moderate New South politician gave him an early but fleeting lead, fires back, attacking Helms as the "High Priest...