Word: sen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most gruesome political campaigns since World War II ended on a note of high drama last night as Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) pleaded with a nationwide television audience to vote according to "the politics of trust" rather than the "politics of fear...
TEXAS: No matter which way this one goes, Texas will end up with another conservative Senator to complement John Tower. The upset primary victory of Lloyd Benston over liberal Democrat Sen. Ralph Yarborough was a big victory for the conservative wing of the Texas Democratic Party. Yarborough had a strongly liberal record on the war, civil rights and most other issues...
VIRGINIA: Following the breakup of the traditional Byrd machine, a three-way Senate race developed between the incumbent, Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.; George Rawlings, a liberal Democrat; and Ray Garland, a conservative Republican. The result will determine both who holds the reigns of power in the state and in the once-omnipotent Democratic party...
Byrd had subsequently found himself increasingly isolated by the emerging leadership in the Democratic party, as liberal forces led by freshman Sen. William B. Spong moved to occupy the power vacuum left by his father's death. After a Byrdbacked candidate for Governor ran an ignominious third in the 1969 primary, Byrd announced that he was leaving the party to run as an independent...
...YORK-Sen Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) went on statewide television last night to scotch rumors that he will withdraw from the Senate race in favor of his Democratic opponent, Rep. Richard L. Ottinger because a Daily News poll showed Goodell running third...