Word: javitses
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JAVITS v. CLARK The politics of antipolitics has reached a kind of perfection in the New York senatorial race. Democratic Candidate Ramsey Clark, 46, is doing everything a candidate is not supposed to do. Whenever possible he does not avoid a stand on a controversial issue-he takes it. Instead...
Yet he must be doing something right, for he is giving Republican Incumbent Jacob K. Javits, 70, the toughest contest of his 18 years in the Senate.
Javits admits he is running "scared" and he might add "bewildered." Always taking a moderate-to-liberal position, Javits has knit together a far-flung constituency of largely Jewish voters in New York City and upstate conservatives who have found him safe on economic issues. As the ranking Republican on...
Even though he put a $100 ceiling on campaign contributions, Clark has raised an impressive $358,320, as compared with Javits' $680,000. So much money is unexpectedly coming in-from small contributors and conceivably from some big ones who have spread their funds among friends-that Clark has...
He said that if Clark can maintain the momentum he generated in the past week, "his chances of beating Javits are good.