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...also managed to lay claim to the issue of patriotism, radiating a sunny assurance about America's future even as Jimmy Carter brooded about the malaise that, as he saw it, was gripping the country. "We let them have the high ground," concedes Democratic Congressman James Shannon of Massachusetts. "The Republicans became the flag wavers, the protectors of American values." The G.O.P. succeeded in casting itself as the party of optimism. The Democrats, once the party of the future, became the party of pessimism and stagnation...
Though most of the attention in the Union's most liberal state has focused on the tight primary battle between Democrats Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry and U.S. Rep. James M. Shannon (D-Lawrence), the Republicans, with the not-insignificant help of President Reagan, may retake the seat held by Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), who is retiring because of cancer...
Connolly and Bartley are considered more conservative than Shannon and Kerry...
...Kerry has strong liberal credentials, and is best known as a Vietnam War hero who led the anti-war movement upon his return, Shannon, a protege of House speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. Jr. (D-Cambridge), also has a strong liberal record in congress--he received a 96 percent liberal rating form the National Journal...
...result, said Goldman, will be a campaign that will concentrate on the minimal differences between the two, rather than on broader issues Kerry has labeled Shannon an establishment toady, though neither seems to have sprung a prominence from a wheatfield near Williamstown. Despite claims to the contrary, the Senate race is no reenactment of "Mr. Smith's Gone to Washington...