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...opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is a long-time political insider and a quintessential Reagan/Bush Republican. Thornburgh had all the advantages in this campaign. He had a large bank roll--his opponents had to solicit money in television commercials. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania twice. Then he left the state to work for the Reagan administration. And until Heinz's death, he was Bush's Attorney General. Thornburgh tried running a campaign on the coattails of the current administration. He actually said voters should elect him because he knows "the corridors of power." Bush personally campaigned for Thornburgh three times...
...voters liked Wofford more. People trusted him. And most of all, the citizens of Pennsylvania voted against Richard Thornburgh...
PENNSYLVANIA'S political scene is strange. This year's big elections for the Senate seat and also for the mayorship of Philadelphia were marked by death. In Philadelphia, Frank Rizzo, the Republican candidate was in much the same position as Thornburgh. He was an ex-mayor (although he was a Democrat back then). He was running on a traditional Republican platform (with an added tinge of racism that had nothing to do with Thornburgh). And his past had more than a twinge of corruption (Thornburgh had his association with another former Attorney General, Edwin Meese III, who retired amid scandal...
...that still doesn't erase the fact that the Republicans failed in Pennsylvania this year. The race was marked by all of the stand-bys of power politics--public disenchantment, influence pedaling, party-bashing, corruption and death. Thornburgh ran a traditional Republican campaign with all of the perks of a Washington insider. And he lost...
...Thornburgh campaigned as the ultimate insider. Wofford bludgeoned him with...