Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a phone off the hook will keep the Helms and Hunt forces from ringing and encouraging voters to exercise their most sacred rights. And in the mailbox, bills from the electric company barely outnumber "Dear Friend" fund-raising appeals from the candidates...
This ceaseless barrage adds up to a staggering figure: $22.1 million. As of October 17, Helms had raised $13.7 million and Hunt had raised $8.4 million, easily breaking all previous Senate campaign spending records. Cumulatively, they have spent about $7 per registered voter--enough to pay the salaries of all 100 U.S. Senators for nearly three years...
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" of a nationwide "network of right-wing extremists...
Sunday football, for example, takes a back seat to the commercials shown between posessions. Local radio stations, when not airing campaign ads, spin Helms-Hunt musical parodies. Ray Parker Jr.'s hit "Ghostbusters" has been dismembered so that the chorus repeatedly chimes "Who ya gonna call? Mudslingers! They ain't afraid of no mud. They're just out for some blood...
...contributions pour in from all over the nation. Almost two-thirds--64.4 percent--of Helms' major contributions have come from out of state, while Hunt has collected more than one-third --36.9 percent--of his major contributions out of state...