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Only in the Ohio Democratic Senate primary did the predicted pattern hold up. At stake was nomination for the seat vacated by Republican William Saxbe when he became U.S. Attorney General. Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, 56, serving temporarily by appointment, was challenged by John Glenn, 52, the retired astronaut and Marine colonel who is now a franchise partner in five Holiday Inns. When the two last competed for a Senate nomination in 1970, Metzenbaum, with eight years' experience as a state legislator and an efficient, well-financed campaign, beat Glenn. Metzenbaum then lost in the general election to Robert...
Strong Chisel. At the outset, it seemed that Metzenbaum would repeat his 1970 performance. There were few policy differences between the two Democrats, although Glenn is basically more conservative than Metzenbaum. The only major contrast was between Metzenbaum, the experienced politician, and Glenn, who had never before been elected to office. But Glenn steadily chipped away with one strong chisel-his Boy Scout image. The result was a decisive victory for Glenn, a plurality of 94,000 out of more than 1,000,000 votes cast...
Billing himself as "someone your children can look up to," Glenn from the start mined his reputation for honesty and integrity. Although he vowed to wage "the cleanest campaign I know how," Glenn all but ignored the issues to hit hard-and low-at Metzenbaum as a tax dodger after both candidates released details of their recent tax returns. The charge rested on the facts that Metzenbaum (whose net worth is $3.6 million) legitimately paid no federal taxes in 1969 because of high interest payments and losses in various investments and is involved in a tax-court dispute over...
...Watergate-weary voters, such a question was bound to evoke unhappy comparisons. The tax issue cut deeply into Metzenbaum's support, even among the labor unions, where it was strongest in 1970. "Our people at the plants are puking over that tax business," said Arch Little, executive secretary of the Dayton-Miami Valley AFL-CIO Council. Washington Pollster Peter Hart, who took surveys for Glenn, found that 43% of those polled thought Glenn was the more honest of the two candidates, while only 11% thought Metzenbaum was. "In essence, that was the ball game," said Hart. Metzenbaum, who will...
...building of a floor, rather than a ceiling. Every potential candidate is entitled to a minimum reasonable exposure of his person and ideas. Challenging incumbents clearly requires money; it is unfair to give that chance to only the rich, or the allies of the rich. For every Metzenbaum and Ottinger, there may be half a dozen abler candidates who cannot raise enough money to campaign. Public funding is required. Each candidate should be provided with an amount based on the vote cast in the previous election for the office he seeks. Thus, through television and other means, he could...