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They know what's good for them in terms of party politics too. At the appropriate time, both Helms and Thurmond turned from Democrats to Republicans, and although it may come back to haunt Helms (the GOP is on the decline in North Carolina), the metamorphosis has served both well...
...surprisingly, the kinds of issues Helms stresses bear no relation to the concrete problems of the constituency he courts: problems like North Carolina's wage scale, the lowest in the country...
Still, when Helms sounds off with, "Your tax dollars are being used to teach our children cannibalism, wife swapping and the murder of infants," the message is clear, even if voters know the rhetoric is exaggerated. What isn't clear to many North Carolinians is the irony of an attack on Big Government by a man so beholden to Big Business, his denials of that association not withstanding...
Both Thurmond and Helms face vigorous opponents in November. In North Carolina, Insurance Commissioner John Ingram is tackling Helms after an upset victory over Charlotte banker Luther Hodges in the Democratic primary. Ingram attacked Hodges as the darling of the special interests and is trying to do the same with Helms. He stresses his achievements as a progressive insurance commissioner--the elimination of age, sex and race discrimination in the state's insurance rates, and the investigation of insurance companies that stonewall on workman's compensation payments...
...made Ravenel out to be the puppet of special interests, though his own out-of-state contributions total more than Ravenel's. Helms has taken a different tack. He ridicules Ingram's obvious lack of sophistication and pictures him as naive and gullible--certainly not the kind of man North Carolinians should trust to hold down the fort against the Russians...