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...huge size (147,138 sq. mi.), the state has only 413,000 registered voters, and a candidate's campaign can be financed for well under a million dollars. Yet money looms as the big issue in Republican Challenger Larry Williams' attempt to unseat Democratic Incumbent John Melcher...
...lost the 1978 race to Democrat Max Baucus in a nasty fight. This time the campaign is gentlemanly clean. Williams describes his present opponent as "a good, decent fellow," but suggests he is the captive of special-interest groups. Roughly $350,000 of the $550,000 already in Melcher's war chest comes from outside the state, mostly from 150 political-action committees, prompting some Montanans to dub Melcher...
...Melcher, 58, a veterinarian and ex-Congressman, argues that his contributors represent such a broad array of interests that it would be impossible to cater to them all, even if he were so inclined. He charges that Williams too is benefiting from an out-of-state political-action committee, if indirectly. The National Conservative Political Action Committee has targeted Melcher for defeat and has spent $200,000 in the Montana race...
Michael F. Melcher '85 chose Government by default because Harvard doesn't offer international relations as a concentration. "I didn't discover that until Freshman Week," said Melcher, adding, however. "I would have come here even if I had known because I'm very name-conscious...
Montana's Melcher was won over partly because of another letter, from Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield, an old mentor who had preceded Melcher in his Senate seat. The day before the vote, Administration lobbyists called Melcher off the Senate floor to read him Mansfield's statement. Melcher cited it when he announced his decision that evening...