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Incumbency is proving to be a difficult obstacle for other challengers in closely watched House races. In Delaware, Democrat Tom Carper, 37, is running even with his well-financed opponent, Elise du Pont, 48, wife of the state's outgoing Governor and chemical fortune heir. Last week Carper won the endorsement of the state's two dailies, the Wilmington News-Journal and the Delaware State News. In New York, Republican Bill Green, 55, continues to hold a lead over brash Democratic Challenger Andrew Stein, 39, in the race to represent Manhattan's prestigious silk-stocking district, though...
...fashion world in the early 1970s when he introduced a line of ultra-feminine dresses. When the fashions appeared, everyone else was selling sportswear and jeans, but the carefully tailored garments were quickly snapped up by Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and other tony department stores. The onetime Du Pont accountant was on his way. Sales of Nipon's dresses (price: $100 to $2,000) this year are expected to reach $60 million, and he has collected a clutch of celebrity customers, including Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara Walters, Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan...
...Pont wealth stems from the chemical company that is the state's largest employer. Initially, Elise du Pont was so eager to dispel the notion that she was riding on her husband's coattails and checkbook that her campaign billboards advertised her only as "Elise." When voters failed to respond, campaign strategists added her surname. Even though her husband has studiously stayed away from the campaign, her popularity is inexorably linked to his. Pierre du Pont, completing his second term, has an approval rating of some 90%. "Pete du Pont has turned the state around," says Rotarian John...
...Elise du Pont, educated at Miss Porter's School and Bryn Mawr, entered politics late in life, having raised four children before she started law school in Philadelphia at age 40. Her volunteer effort for the Reagan-Bush 1980 campaign won her a high-level appointment to the Agency for International Development in Washington in 1981. Rich, well bred and painstakingly polite, Du Pont hopes to coast in on the President's popularity in the conservative state. She has been coached on tax cuts and the balanced-budget amendment by G.O.P. Supply-Siders Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich...
...veteran, he served three terms as state treasurer before unseating Republican Congressman Tom Evans in 1982. He tools across the state in his beat-up Plymouth Horizon, listening to classical music, and boasts that he has now shaken every hand in Delaware. Carper professes not to mind that Du Pont plans to spend $300,000 more than he, insisting, "I'm used to being outspent. I overcome it by an intense, person-to-person grass-roots campaign." Carper, who supported Gold water in 1964, is a fiscal conservative who is bullish on defense. On most issues, the two candidates...