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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dick Clark, 49, observed: "Liberalism is kind of hunkered down right now. It's on the defensive." That was on the eve of his bid for a second term as U.S. Senator. The following day the Iowa Democrat, one of the Senate's leading liberals, learned how right he was. He became a casualty of the conservative trend, losing to Republican Roger Jepsen, 49, a Davenport businessman...
Robert Griffin, 55, to his dismay, bucked the voting trend. Michigan's G.O.P. Senator was one of the nation's few conservative incumbents to be defeated by a liberal. In his bid for a third Senate term, he lost (47% to 53%) to Democrat Carl Levin, 44, the former president of Detroit's city council...
Floyd Haskell, 62, was described by Jimmy Carter as "a national treasure." But Coloradans disagree. By a 59%-to-41% vote, they rejected Democrat Haskell's try for a second U.S. Senate term and in his place elected G.O.P. Congressman William Armstrong...
...term Democratic Representative Martha Keys of Kansas once had a twelve-point lead in polls over conservative Republican Jim Jeffries. But right-to-life adherents ganged up on her, and others doubted her ability to combine her marriage to Indiana Representative Andrew Jacobs with representing Kansas. Said Jeffries: "Martha doesn't shop here any more." She lost...
...Capitol about how to handle energy or inflation, it is difficult to make policy. It is also much harder for the man in the White House to use party discipline to bring Congressmen into line behind his program. Jimmy Carter, who for the first two years of his term incautiously neglected relations with the national Democratic Party, found that he could not attack from the culprit's rear, by way of the party structure back home...