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District Vote. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt, a Republican who has long dreamed of uniting Northern and Southern conservatives in a single political party, leads a campaign to bring the presidential election somewhat closer to a proportional vote than it is now. He would divide each state into electoral districts, each nearly equal in population, have the voters in each district choose one elector, plus two "at large'' electors to be selected statewide. Under such a system, says Mundt, "the present inordinate power of organized pressure groups in the big-city states would be reduced...
...slenderest of margins, South Dakotans handed Republican Karl Mundt, 60, a political prize they have not bestowed in 30 years: a third term in the Senate. Mundt encountered stern competition from onetime History Professor (Dakota Wesleyan University) and two-time Congressman George McGovern, 38, who banked on rural discontent this year to unseat Mundt...
South Dakota. Cherubic, pipe-puffing Karl Mundt, 60, has spent 22 years on Capitol Hill, twelve of them in the Senate. Starting off as a small-town schoolteacher and ardent fisherman, Mundt tried his hand as a college speech instructor, farmer and insurance agent, broke into politics as a member of South Dakota's Game and Fish Commission. A prewar isolationist turned internationalist, he bears right domestically-except on farm policy, where he favors liberal supports...
While those indefatigable incumbents Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Paul Douglas of Illinois, were returned, no new liberal Democrats were elected to Congress. In South Dakota, Karl Mundt narrowly squeaked by George McGovern. Other liberal casualties included Frank Theis in Kansas, Hershel Loveless in Iowa, and Rep. William Meyer, Vermont's outspoken peace advocate...
South Dakota. For the first time in generations South Dakotans have a clear-cut choice between a genuine conservative, folksy Karl Mundt, 60, the Republican defender, and a purebred liberal, Congressman George McGovern, 38, the Democratic challenger. Mundt is running for an unprecedented (for South Dakota) third term, stressing his seniority and experience and the Nixon-Lodge capability for "handling the Russians." He has repudiated Ezra Benson. McGovern, a deceptively soft-talking former history professor (and World War II 6-24 pilot with D.F.C., the air medal and three oakleaf clusters), offers his own farm program, attacks Mundt...