Word: jepsen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mall. Despite a wind-chill factor of 0°, Wyoming's Senator Alan Simpson, 47, Virginia's John Warner, 51, New Hampshire's Gordon Humphrey, 38, Minnesota's David Durenberger, 44, South Dakota's Larry Pressler, 36, and Iowa's Roger Jepsen, 50, enjoyed their informal caucus. Says Simpson: "It clears away...
...assured New Hampshire Democratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre that he was leading Gordon Humphrey by 59.5% to 30%, with no signs of movement toward the Republican. Humphrey won, 51% to 49%. Respected Pollster Peter Hart found that incumbent Democrat Dick Clark was leading his conservative Republican opponent Roger Jepsen 57% to 27% in October. "We did not have it tight, and we did not have Jepsen moving up," says Hart. Jepsen beat Clark, 52% to 48%. In Kansas, one survey had Democrat Bill Roy ahead of eventual Winner Nancy Landon Kassebaum; running for Governor of that state, Democrat John Carlin...
...portent in his victory. He was elected, he said, "not because of what I was, but because of what I was not. I was beholden to no one, backed by no special interests and had no debts." In Iowa, the voters' toss-'em-out mood benefited Conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who upset Liberal Democrat Dick Clark...
...defensive." That was on the eve of his bid for a second term as U.S. Senator. The following day the Iowa Democrat, one of the Senate's leading liberals, learned how right he was. He became a casualty of the conservative trend, losing to Republican Roger Jepsen, 49, a Davenport businessman...
Telling voters that "this time the choice is clear," Jepsen had hit hard at Clark's liberal record. The Democrat was denounced for being pro-union and for backing costly Government social-welfare programs, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. He paid dearly for his liberal stand on abortion. Right-to-life groups distributed hundreds of thousands of brochures that depicted a fetus and urged votes against Clark. Said a Jepsen aide: "Inflation and taxes really were the overriding things. People are just tired of them...