Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hunt aides now claim they knew Helms would resort to mudslinging. They say they had long prepared to counterattack by focusing first on Helms' record as a devout opponent of social security and abortion and as a lackluster Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and second on Helms' "retrogressive" mindset. But they were clearly baffled when Helms began to close the gap in the polls-he slung mud, as expected, but he also traveled the high moral road of emotive symbolism...
...government of all responsibilities save national defense and religious guidance. Before poorer, small-town, Old Southerners he extolls a "Walton's mountain vision"-an American based on family virtues, discipline and leadership, the American Dream, and a thinly veiled segregation. Helms admits that he doesn't mind doing what Hunt calls "opening racial wounds," as he doesn't expect any Black votes...
Beneath the cloud cover of his visions, Helms has attacked Hunt on all fronts. He has sought to portray Hunt as the fickle puppet of interest groups he believes are unpopular in North Carolina--labor unions, Blacks, and gays. A publisher sympathetic to Helms recently ran an article in his conservative paper The Leader with the headline JIM HUNT IS SISSY, PRISSY, GIRLISH AND EFFEMINATE. Helms repudiated the article, which went on to claim that Hunt had a homosexual lover, but his aides still refer to opposition staffers as "queers". Further, Helms has used their television debates to bait Hunt...
INDEED, HELMS' master plan has been to associate himself as closely as possible with Mr. Testosjerone, Ronald Reagan, while sticking Hunt with the tag "Mondale liberal". His gamble is that if all else fails Reagan, who leads in North Carolina almost 2 to 1, will carry the state for the ticket...
...Hunt has always tried to separate himself from Helms as much as possible, but it is clear that though he supports Mondale, the Governor would also like to dissociate himself from the pallid image of his party's Presidential nominee. Hunt is more moderate than Mondale on such issues as tax increases and the nuclear freeze, both of which he opposes, and on the death penalty, which he favors, but he has had trouble getting voters to look carefully at his record in an emotional campaign dominated by vitriolic television and radio advertisements. Helms seems to have successfully maneuvered both...