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Thad Cochran, 40, the first Republican Senator from Mississippi since 1881, is as rigidly conservative as his Democratic predecessor, six-term Senator James Eastland. In three terms as a Congressman, Cochran ran up a 95% voting approval rating from the American Conservative Union and a zero approval rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Cochran has a boyish charm and is an easygoing, relaxed campaigner. He has consistently drawn votes from both parties and run up increasingly large winning margins (as high as 78%) in his congressional campaigns. He won last week in a three-way race against Democratic...
...never recanted his basically liberal philosophy, bridging the gap by claiming: "People aren't against every government program; they just want their money's worth." A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School Levin is a member of a highly active political family. His older brother Sander twice ran unsuccessfully against Michigan Governor William Milliken, and cousin Charles Levin sits on the Michigan Supreme Court. Levin expects to spend much of his time in the Senate attacking governmental waste and inefficiency...
...often keep detailed lists on their own computers and can send mailings to constituents who feel strongly about one issue. Detailed opinion polls subjected to computer analysis enable challengers to find their opponents' weaknesses and plan their own stands accordingly. Democrat Alex Seith did that in Illinois, and then ran as more conservative than Republican Moderate Senator Charles Percy. He might have beaten Percy except for last-minute reaction to some of his tactics, such as a radio advertisement implying that Percy is a racist...
...most women congressional candidates, it was a dismal election week. One, Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected to the Senate, but the two women who are already there are leaving: Muriel Humphrey of Minnesota and Maryon Allen of Alabama. Forty-five women ran for Congress, but only 16 won election, two fewer than...
...Democrat Jane Eskind, who ran a foredoomed race in Tennessee against Republican Senator Howard Baker, still managed to get 464,000 votes, more than any other woman in the state's history. "We have women in the courthouse, city hall, mayor's chair and state legislature," says Eskind. "But I think voting for a woman for national office is still an issue in Tennessee." Indeed, it is in most states...