Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But here in South Dakota there are bigger issues at stake. The senatorial race is revolving around the state's entire conception of the role of the office of U.S. Senator.
"What's at stake in this election is whether a senator should be a national spokesman for South Dakota or an ombudsman, a letter-answerer," says George Cunningham, McGovern's campaign manager.
The war in Vietnam and the senator's voting record have become only peripheral issues, and that is why McGovern is solidly in front of Gubbrud, walking into a conservative Republican wind.
In an earlier attack Gubbrud sewed together several quotations from McGovern's speeches on civil rights to prove that the senator was in favor of flooding South Dakota with millions of Negroes from the large cities.
Still, it is clear that with a non-Administration man at the head of the Democratic ticket, McGovern would be running far better. "If it weren't for Humphrey's drag on McGovern," said Peter Starvrianos '66, a campaign official, "there's little doubt that the senator would be easily...