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Might it have been different? Probably not. Until nearly the very end of the campaign, Anderson was too preachy, humorless and high-flown on the stump. For all his intelligence, he did not wear well. His personality was not bright enough to overcome his lack of a theme...
Florida. "When I'm in Washington, you'll know I'm there," promised Paula Hawkins on the stump. "You need a fighter in the U.S. Senate. They've had too many lovers up there." Her contest was far from a love feast as she bested her Democratic opponent, William Gunter, with grit and grace and the right combination of issues...
Both candidates used the questions as excuses to pull out timetested stump speech material. For example, when asked about international terrorists Carter included a peroration on the dangers of nuclear proliferation. He seemed to have a mental list of topics he was going to get in, no matter the question or Reagan's response. The President was constantly on the attack with charges that Reagan's views on foreign policy and nuclear arms were reckless. But the Republican proved adept at delivering aw-shucks parries to Carter's thrusts. Indeed, Reagan had carefully rehearsed them before...
...issue in the state's election. Church, remember, helped hand the trench over to the Panamanians, a move he contends kept Panama friendly to the U.S. Symms, though, cites the episode as evidence of Church's general softness and has forced Church to spend a good deal of his stump time discussing the waterway...
Although she supported Kennedy in the primary, Rotenberg did not hit the stump for him because, as she says, she did not want to alienate her White House contacts. "I've always been a Kennedy person and a flaming liberal," she explains, "but I didn't think he'd win, so I held out to see what would happen...