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...Massachusetts E--John Kerry (D) 1008.339 56 77 Ray Shamie (R) 796.700 44 Michigan E--Carl Levin (D)' 708.647 48 38 Jack Lousma (R) 768.912 52 Minnesota Joan Growe (D) 361.621 45 44 Rudy Boechwitz (R)' 439.225 55 Mississippi William Winter (D) 359.348 39 98 E--Thad Cochran (R) 564.681 61 Montana Max Baucus (D) 37.237 56 22 Chuck Cozzens (R) 27.509 41 Nebraska E--James J. Exon (D) 254.527 52 85 Nancy Hoch (R) 231.301 48 New Hampshire Norm D. Amours (D) 65.349 42 58 E--Gordon Humphrey (R) 90.434 58 New Jersey E--Bill Bradley...
With his broad shoulders, silver hair and deep, drawling voice, Thad Cochran seems a paragon of the old-fashioned Southern politician. He is not. As the first Republican since Reconstruction to win a Senate seat from Mississippi, Cochran, 46, personifies the changing face of the Deep South. A boosterish supporter of Reaganomics, Cochran is less conservative on civil rights and funding for public education. His easygoing geniality, moreover, has an appeal that extends far beyond his white, urban, upwardly mobile core constituency. Even Democratic Challenger William Winter concedes, "There is no way I would win a popularity contest with Thad...
Senate leaders frantically dispatched Air Force jets on Friday to retrieve wandering legislators from campaign and home sites. The Pentagon placed the cost of flying Senators John Tower of Texas, Jeremiah Denton of Alabama and Thad Cochran of Mississippi back to the Capitol from their home states at $4,100. Air Force funds are routinely set aside for such travel in a congressional crisis. By afternoon nine more Senators willing to vote for the debt hike had returned, and the bill passed, 37 to 30. "I thought this day would never come," said Baker after casting the last vote...
Senate Candidates Paul Simon, D., Ill., $387,892 Charles Percy, R., Ill., $368,024 Jim Hunt, D., N.C., $321,038 Thad Cochran, R., Miss., $310,213 Phil Gramm, R., Texas...
Democrats are also placing high hopes on three other races: Tennessee, where the retirement of Senator Howard Baker has led to a free-for-all among four Republicans vying to run against Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr.; Mississippi, where popular former Democratic Governor William Winter is challenging Republican Thad Cochran; and Iowa, where an acrimonious race is shaping up between freshman Senator Roger Jepsen, a conservative Republican, and Representative Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat. In each case the outcome will partly turn on the popularity of the man at the top of the ballot, Ronald Reagan...