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...Nixon's strongest states, Oklahoma turned back Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney's bid for a third term, electing former Nixon campaign manager Henry Bellmon by a moderate margin. In the House, Oklahoma seems to have maintained its 4-2 Democratic majority...
...terms in the House and three in the Senate have made Monroney a fixture, but one not really plugged into the sockets of power. A populist liberal of impeccable reputation, Monroney has chosen to be an expert rather than a force. His efforts to reorganize Congress have largely gone by the board. He is chairman of the Senate's Post Of fice and Civil Service Committee and is known as "Mr. Aviation" because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant...
...Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor, Bellmon proved so popular that in 1966 he was able to pull in a Republican successor, Governor Dewey Bartlett, a Princeton-educated, Roman Catholic Tulsan in a traditionally rural-oriented, Protestant state. Democratic hegemony has been shattered, and now Bellmon is after Monroney's Senate seat...
Neither sets the hustings afire. Bellmon runs as a folksy, somewhat hawkish conservative. Monroney cogently defends Administration policies on the war, farm problems, gun control and the cities, but in a colorless style that tends to tune out his audiences. While both men are uncommonly shy for politicians, Bellmon drives himself through a saturation-handshaking pace. His key tack is the charge that Monroney has lost touch with the red-dirt prairies and hills of home...
...Harris Factor. Monroney and his wife this month moved back to Okla homa City for the campaign, but have found his organization in tatters. Since then, Democrats have coalesced to help. Tom Finney, a former Eugene McCarthy aide, arrived to reorganize the campaign. Junior Senator Fred Harris, a Hubert Humphrey lieutenant, became cochairman. There is even a newly formed "Minis for Monroney" to combat the "Bellmon Belles." Yet the latest polls show that Monroney has slipped behind Bellmon by as much as 6%. No Republican ever rates a shoo-in role in Oklahoma. However, unless Harris goes on the national...