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...used to be the most feared of all PACs. The National Conservative PAC (NCPAC), known as "Nickpac," mounted a series of harsh negative advertising campaigns in 1980 that it insists were responsible for defeating Democratic Senators George McGovern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. In the heady aftermath, NCPAC grandly announced that it planned to shoot down 20 more liberal Senators in 1982. But NCPAC's aim has proved less deadly than thought, and its guns are beginning to backfire. NCPAC is now heavily involved in only five Senate...
...Harvard students who get too smug about their work. Higgins tells the story of one campus politico of a decade back. In the second semester of his senior year. Patrick H. Caddell '72 was the chief pollster for George McGovern presidential bid A few weeks after receiving his Harvard diploma. Caddell helped mastermind the liberal senator's victory at the Democratic convention in Miami. --Marc O. Litt '84 --Christina A. Spaulding '84 --Sam Medalie...
...freeze and the latest Kennedy Campaign are only the most recent political causes taken up by this thin high strung backer of idealistic causes. Besides working on John Kennedy's campaign Townsend was part of George McGovern's aborted presidential bid in 1972 and was environmental affairs coordinator for her uncle...
...Committee (NCPAC) adapted the concept to U.S. Senate races by targeting liberal Democrats for an onslaught of negative media advertising, "hit list" joined the American political lexicon for good. And the committee's sharpshooters hit their marks with stunning accuracy--NCPAC-backed conservatives handily defeated progressive stalwarts like George McGovern, Frank Church and Birch Bayh. The chilling words of NCPAC chief Terry Dolan--"we want people to hate Birch Bayh without even knowing why"--conveyed an unmistakable message to jittery liberals: the age of political mind control had arrived...
...Harnett was one of the new breed of conservative Congressmen swept into office in the Reagan triumph of 1980. Once a Democrat, the South Carolinian switched par ties after George McGovern's nomination in 1972, and he carries with him some of the fervor of the convert. Though he helped Reagan win his budget battles last year, he was put in an agonizing predicament by the tax bill. "I'm philosophically opposed," drawled Hartnett the day before the vote. "You don't cut Government by giving it more money. You've got to starve the bureaucrats...