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...Angeles Bureau Chief Dan Goodgame found himself climbing up the sideboards of mud-spattered beet trucks while covering the campaign of Idaho Republican Steve Symms, who won a second Senate term. Bonnie Angelo, who heads the New York bureau, searched a small town in Maryland with Democrat Barbara Mikulski, who would later win her Senate bid, as she tried to find the hall where she was supposed to speak. In Sheyenne, N. Dak. (pop. 307), Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White found supporters of successful Senatorial Aspirant Kent Conrad so enthusiastic about having a representative of the national media in their...
...accuses Democratic Rival Bob Graham of accepting support from the Young Communist League. In Wisconsin, Democratic Challenger Ed Garvey was accused of hiring a private eye to snoop into Republican Senator Robert Kasten's affairs. Maryland Republican Linda Chavez, a mother of three, derides her opponent, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, who has never married, as "antimale" and a "San Francisco-style" liberal...
...classic strategy of populism, born a century ago. Though the movement has zigzagged through the political landscape, and though some conservatives now claim a share of its legacy, populism's core remains its opposition to assorted elites. In Maryland, for instance, the voting records of Representatives Barbara Mikulski and Michael Barnes are both strongly liberal. Mikulski, the shrill voice of blue-collar Baltimore, easily bested Barnes, the urbane, bloodless spokesman of upscale Montgomery County...
Last week Chavez derided Mikulski as a "San Francisco-style, George McGovern Democrat. People are going to reject her kind of liberalism." The Mikulski camp has countered with a charge that Chavez has "no moral anchor," a reference to her party switching. Nothing in these bareknuckle exchanges smacks of what journalists used to call petticoat politics...
...wins, she will be the first Republican woman ever elected Governor in the U.S. If Mikulski wins, she will be the first female Democrat elected to the Senate who did not originally fill a vacancy left by her husband. Clearly, American politics is entering a new phase, one that reflects society's changing attitudes toward women. Even the traditional election-night celebrations are being transformed. In Maryland last week, an ebullient Kathleen Kennedy Townsend stood on the dais after the primary, thumbs up in victory. Next to her stood her husband David, their youngest child Kate in his arms...