Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse--better known to outsiders as Republican U.S. Sen. Jesse A. Helms and Democratic Gov. James 8, Hunt, Jr.--were preparing to mix it up on statewide television in the fourth and final debate of their bitter Senate race. And true to the last 18 months of campaigning, both...
...stake in this election--the candidates repeat ad nauseum--is the future of North Carolina. Hunt, seen by many as the embodiment of the New South, argues for progress and high technology. Helms, widely considered the standard-bearer of the Old South, wages a moral crusade in defense of traditional American values...
...campaign entered the final week, Hunt and his aides were working feverishly to bring the focus of the race where it had never been-North Carolina. Hunt painted Helms as an out of touch crusader concerned only with national and international issues. Along this line, the Democrats sought to turn a recent Helms "coup" against him-they said that when Helms garnered the endorsements of 23 American ambassadors it showed that his interests lie far afield. Though Helms has repeatedly said that he has no interest in heading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should Charles Percy, the current chairman, lose...
...minute issue-spinning is pointless. The race will be decided by a special group of young, white, suburban voters: the 9 percent of the electorate that is still undecided. Since national elections tend to sway the undecided voters in a local election, the feeling in North Carolina is that Hunt and Helms are hostages to the political fortunes of Mondale and Reagan. They are thus both representative of and subject to the national forces that will decide the tenor of the next four years...
...equitable tax structure--and he's held his positions throughout his political career. But in some areas, he disagrees with his party's Presidential candidate. Simon, for instance, supports a proposed balanced budget amendment. His differences with Mondale have aggravated the Percy campaign, much as North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt's independence has frustrated that candidate's opponent, Senator Jesse Helms. And, like the Helms-Hunt contest, the Percy-Simon race has been bitter. A Percy commercial unfairly offers Simon's four year tax plan as if it were a single year plan-a tactic which makes Simon's plan...