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Florida: Richard Stone and Bill Gunter (D) face runoff...
With Anderson not included in a presidential runoff, Reagan still leads Carter by the sliver-thin margin of two percentage points, 44 to 42. This means that today Anderson's independent candidacy draws support from both major party candidates in about equal amounts...
...biggest winner turned out to be the Islamic Republic Party, led by Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, who is Banisadr's main political opponent. Of the first 80 seats filled so far, the I.R.P. won 35, and Banisadr's supporters carried only 15. If that trend continues in runoff elections, to be held early next month, the I.R.P. is likely to emerge with the largest single bloc in the Assembly. But many of the non-I.R.P. members, who will probably form a majority, are locked in bitter rivalry with the clerical party and will side with Banisadr...
...major candidates have spent a record $20 million this year trying to occupy the grandiose state capitol that the Kingfish built in Baton Rouge 48 years ago. What is surprising is that for the first time since Reconstruction, a Republican, Congressman David Treen, 51, is favored to win the runoff on Dec. 8. That is not what the archpopulist Huey Long had in mind...
...found a way to eliminate it. In 1975 they changed the election law so that candidates of both parties would all enter a single primary. They figured that the two top vote getters would invariably be Democrats, thus eliminating the problem of having anyone face a Republican in the runoff. They figured wrong. In the October primary, Treen outdistanced his adversaries, and will face Democrat Louis Lambert, 38, in the runoff...