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THE NORTH CAROLINA Senatorial contest between Republican incumbent Jesse Helms, 63, and two-term Democratic Governor Jim Hunt, 47, has been widely hailed as second in importance only to the Presidential sweepstakes. It is seen as a bellweather contest because the two candidates so clearly represent polarized, incompatible strands of...
A COLLECTIVE SIGN of relief could be heard from Democrats all around the country Monday, as they began to take stock of Sunday's debate between Walter F. Mondale and President Reagan. In Illinois, Rep. Paul E. Simon bould breathe a little bit easier in his effort to unseat Senate...
Percy has tried to emphasize his ties to Reagan, as well as his clout and power in the Senate. But few of his colleagues have helped him in his battle. Many far-right Republicans want Percy out so that North Carolina's Jesse Helms, champion of the Moral Majority...
She is a portly grandmother whose born-again piety has won over some of her toughest fellow inmates. She is also a convicted killer, sentenced to death row six years ago for killing her fiancé with arsenic. Margie Velma Barfield, 51, a onetime private nurse, also confessed to poisoning...
Both candidates are currently scrambling for the estimated 10% of the voting population that is undecided. Helms has wooed that group by playing up his ties to President Reagan and linking Hunt to Walter Mondale, who is unpopular in much of North Carolina. New voters may also play a key...