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THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN and the Republican sweep of 1980 apparently boosted Sen Jesse Helms (R-N-C.) to an unusual position of power on Capitol Hill. An uncompromising far-right polemicist, Helms was given an unanticipated opportunity to peddle his extreme views on abortion, school prayer, and busing...
The national media have eagerly fed upon this reputation, providing Helms with the awed coverage that inflates a politician's ego and image. But the fearsome scion of the New Right has actually proved a far less effective legislator than is commonly assumed. More prudent colleagues from both sides of...
Helms has so angered other senators and congressmen with his scornful brand of confrontational politics that in 1981--despite his leadership of the Agricultural Committee--Helms had to rely on the Senate's Republican leadership to win that traditional North Carolina constituent service, pork barrel tobacco price supports. And his...
Of course, the doom-mongering ideologue that he is, Helms actually expects to lose a lot of the battles he fights. But the New Right's leading light may be in more serious trouble than he realizes, not in the Senate but where the votes really count, back home in...
In particular, his sophisticated political organization seems to have lost much of its lustre. The hallmark of that machine is the National Congressional Club, the richest political action committee in the country. Armed with a hefty war chest built up by direct mail fundraising, the club has backed Helms proteges...