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Rockefeller, backed by a superb organization, is campaigning for more jobs and better roads and against strip mining; he depicts former six-term Congressman Moore as an anti-conservation advocate of the surface mining that more and more West Virginians fear. Still, in spite of eight years' residence, Rockefeller frequently has to defend himself against charges that he is a rich carpetbagger using penurious West Virginia as a step toward national office. Sometimes he refutes the accusation too effusively, as when he scoops up a handful of dirt and croons, "I love the feel of it. I love...
...course of his campaign-which began last February when he decided six-term Republican incumbent Hastings Keith could be beaten-Studds emerged from complete obscurity to a point where potential presidential candidates sought to win his favor and local organization Democrats, who laughed heartily when he first declared his candidacy in late March, assured him they had been working privately for him all winter...
...Tenth District, antiwar Democrat Gerry Studds clung to a precarious 3400-vote lead out of nearly 16,000 cast over six-term Republican incumbent Hastings Keith, while the antiwar campaign of Democrat Bertram A. Yaffe appeared headed for defeat at the hands of long-time Republican Twelfth District congresswoman Margaret Heckler, who led by more than 7000 votes out of 43,000 cast with one-fourth of the votes counted...
...fiscal management and a 45% increase in property taxes. Kirk's counterthrusts are characteristic: Askew is an ultra liberal and a "Goody Two-shoes powder puff." The race is considered close, win a third. Democrat Dale Bumpers, a Sunday-school teacher and political neophyte who polished off former six-term Governor Orval Faubus in the primary, is conducting a low-key campaign almost as if he were certain of victory. By contrast, Rockefeller is covering the state in jet-powered helicopters and spending money in the Rockefeller manner in a sometimes frenetic bid to stay in office...
Barring divine intervention, none of the clerical candidates are going to coast to victory. Most, in fact, seem to be certain losers who will be satisfied if their candidacies force some political conversions. One clergyman has already succeeded in doing just that. Congressman Thaddeus Dulski. a six-term Buffalo, N.Y.. Democrat, used to take a hard line on the Viet Nam War. But after the Rev. Hugh Carmichael, an antiwar Episcopal priest, entered the race, Dulski changed his position; he now advocates withdrawal of all U.S. troops by a specific deadline...