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This is not to suggest that Ravenel hopes to "outslick" Thurmond through a sly and subtle campaign strategy. Rather, he must win on the issues. He quite openly confronts all the pressing state and national issues from energy to inflation to unemployment to a care program for the elderly. In his campaign, Ravenel hopes to make South Carolinians aware of the issues--and of the answers he feels are correct...
Moreover, Ravenel believes that his energy program will help end inflation. He advocates the deregulation of gasoline prices and a program for controlled fuel consumption, hoping to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. In addition, he supports "cogeneration," a method of harnessing the steam and excess energy released from factory smokestacks. This method currently provides 29 per cent of West Germany's electrical needs, he says, and could provide up to half of America's demands...
...Ravenel has issued other policy statements, proposing new welfare reforms and a plan for normalization of relations with Cuba. He has challenged Thurmond to a debate on these and other issues--but Thurmond has refused...
While his political incumbency allows Thurmond the security of a non-response, it would probably be devastating for the 75-year-old to encounter his younger, more aggressive challenger. Their difference in age, however, is the one issue that Ravenel refuses to debate...
...final analysis, this election has the potential for being the hottest senatorial race in the nation this year. Ravenel is hoping to inject dynamism into South Carolina politics--a force not present in decades. He faces a man representing the emotional, "gut" reactions that have withstood the test of several decades of politics. The clash is a significant one, for Ravenel is calling upon South Carolinians to question their automatic and often impulsive assumptions about the state and the nation...