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Overall, the Republicans picked up at least seven new Senate seats. In New York, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-N.Y.) narrowly lost to conservative Alfonse M. D'Amato, but Holtzman called for a recount early this morning...
...spite of these revelations, D'Amato has successfully managed to depict himself as the candidate of the overtaxed and under-appreciated middle class, an average guy in contrast to the intellectual Javits and the Harvard-educated Holtzman. The man who once stood next to Howard Jarvis at a rally and promised to lead the-fight for a Proposition 13 in Nassau County is now promising to lead the Senate fight for Reagan's tax-slashing policies. A vehement opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion, D'Amato, it seems, would prefer to keep women in the kitchen: he even...
...first time since September, a New York Daily News straw poll released Thursday shows D'Amato with a seven-point lead over Holtzman. Little more than a week before, a Times-CBS News poll had given Holtzman a ten-point edge. With D'Amato gaining rapidly, pressures should mount for a Javits withdrawal; some analysts believe that most of the estimated 23 per cent of the electorate that favors Javits will vote for Holtzman. Javits acknowledges that his long-shot struggle to recover from defeat in the Republican primary is losing momentum; polls indicate that only half of the voters...
...votes may ultimately decide who occupies the Oval Office and when 51 women, more than in any other year, are running for Congress, the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment and the entire women's movement is in a state of disarray. While such women as Senate hopeful Elizabeth Holtzman of New York and Rep. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland are being hailed as the core of a "new girl network," feminist leaders are squabbling over methods to insure that three more states will pass the ERA before the June 30, 1982 deadline...
Idaho's Frank Church is also pushing hard to hold off his Republican opponent, Steve Symms, while Colorado's Gary Hart is in a cliffhanger with Republican Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan. (Another woman candidate for the Senate, Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman, seems headed for victory in New York...