Word: huddlestone
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...campaigns this year," says Washington Media Consultant Robert Squier. The trend got a big boost from Republican Mitch McConnell's wildly successful "bloodhound" spots for the Kentucky Senate race in 1984. The series of commercials starred jowly hunting dogs in hot pursuit of Democratic Incumbent Walter Huddleston. The dogs searched everywhere for the supposedly lackadaisical Huddleston, in his district office and other places where one would be likely to find an assiduous Senator. In the last spot, the dogs finally captured Huddleston -- up a tree. McConnell scored an upset victory. This year, says Senator John Heinz, a Pennsylvania Republican...
...Huddleston defeat taught campaign consultants another lesson as well. "An attack unanswered," says Squier, "is an attack agreed to." In other words, you had better fight back. In Louisiana's Senate race, Republican Henson Moore's ad campaign uses a sleek series of voter-in-the-street encounters to ask the significance of the number 1,083. After a series of wild guesses -- a new tax form? the year the Normans conquered England? -- a narrator supplies the answer: the number of floor votes Democratic Candidate John Breaux has missed in 14 years in the House of Representatives...
...major Republican upset, Mitch McConnell unseated two-term Democratic Sen. Walter D. Huddleston...
...moderate Huddleston, who had easily won reelection in 1978, supported most of President Reagan's economic initiatives during his term. But last night he fell to the unheralded McConnell, a popular judge who had long planned his assault on the Democrat...
...Illinois E--Paul Simon (I) 1508 243 52 65 Charles Percy (R)' 1365 591 47 Iowa E--Tom Harkin (D) 613 350 56 87 Roger Jepsen (R)' 478 327 44 Kansas Jim Moher (D) 161 783 22 71 E--Nancy Kasselbaum (R)' 557 843 71 Kentucky Walter Huddleston (D) 633 384 50 100 E--Mitch McConnell (R) 637 384 50 Lousiana E--Bennett Johnston (D) uncontested (Unopposed) Maine Elizabeth Mitchell (D) 54 157 27 57 F--William Cohen (R)' 146 304 73 Massachusetts E--John Kerry (D) 1008.339 56 77 Ray Shamie (R) 796.700 44 Michigan E--Carl Levin...