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...Howell continued the caustic nature of the campaign by not congratulating Dalton. He blamed his defeat on Dalton's direct-mail campaign, which painted Howell as a wild-eyed radical, and Dalton's $1.8 million campaign fund, practically double his own. But it was Howell's maverick image and his intemperate attacks on Dalton and the Virginia business establishments, particularly the powerful utilities, that most damaged his chances...
Berger is not, however, a liberal Ivy League don. In fact, he is a maverick outsider who emigrated from the Ukraine as a child and worked his way through school, a gadfly who enjoys riling the old-boy professors at Harvard. Berger's taste for legal jousting is all too plain in his latest book, Government by Judiciary (Harvard University Press; $15), an elaborate study of the 1866 drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and its subsequent application. Berger's conclusion: virtually every major judicial advance of the past quarter-century, from desegregation to reapportionment...
Whether voters will buy his position that it's time to change the structure of Cambridge politics and elect someone who defies stereotyping will depend on whether his campaign organization--complete with dozens of "Clem Corps" volunteers--can sell Clem himself and his maverick style...
...part, Howell derides his opponent as "Young Johnny" or "Johnny Boy" and accuses Dalton's camp of "Nazi-like" tactics. Howell has tried to temper his maverick image by invoking his closeness to Jimmy Carter, who joined him on the campaign trail last September. Moreover, Howell is running on the same ticket with Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law Chuck Robb, a reassuringly moderate candidate for Lieutenant Governor...
...machine to a commanding lead in the most recent Daily News straw poll. Meanwhile, Cuomo, the centrist candidate who entered the race with the blessings of Gov. Hugh L. Carey's new-formed political apparatus, has watched his support dwindle to the lone endorsement of the Liberal Party--a maverick label that, in light of Cuomo's close association with old-line politicos, is at best incongruous. On the surface, it would seem an interesting race...