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...biggest spending of all was done by ultraconservative Helms in North Carolina, whose $6.7 million was a record for a Senate race. His opponent, John Ingram, a friend and populist protégé of Carter's, raised less than $300,000 and sought to make an issue of the fortune that Helms received from fellow conservatives around the country. Said he: "Helms is the six-million-dollar man and he's not even bionic." It did not work...
Both Thurmond and Helms face vigorous opponents in November. In North Carolina, Insurance Commissioner John Ingram is tackling Helms after an upset victory over Charlotte banker Luther Hodges in the Democratic primary. Ingram attacked Hodges as the darling of the special interests and is trying to do the same with Helms. He stresses his achievements as a progressive insurance commissioner--the elimination of age, sex and race discrimination in the state's insurance rates, and the investigation of insurance companies that stonewall on workman's compensation payments...
...Ingram and Ravenel are both mounting strong challenges, but neither is expected to win. Helms and Thurmond have effectively counterattacked in ways that reveal their political adroltness. Thurmond has rather skillfully made Ravenel out to be the puppet of special interests, though his own out-of-state contributions total more than Ravenel's. Helms has taken a different tack. He ridicules Ingram's obvious lack of sophistication and pictures him as naive and gullible--certainly not the kind of man North Carolinians should trust to hold down the fort against the Russians...
Both responses: depicting Ravenel as a puppet and Ingram as a fool-divert attention from the paradoxical nature of the incumbents' record and rhetoric...
...Times that congratulated Carter for the Middle East breakthrough and concluded: "I am proud of you." The ad was paid for by Democrats who are supporting Republican Senator Jesse Helms for re-election even though Carter had come to the state to campaign for Helms' Democratic rival, John Ingram...