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...archconservative John East to the second Carolina Senate seat. Although the incumbent. Robert Morgan, was no liberal, a blitz of last-minute television ads attacking his support of the Panama Canal Treaties, and to Niearagoa New York, and a few other conservative hobby horses made the guy seem like Tip O'Neill's left-hand...
This minor truism was handed the Democrats as well. Twenty-six new seats in the House is fine, but not as heartening as 40 or 50 would have been, and a wash in the Senate is plain discouraging. Despite Tip O'Neill's pro forma yawp that the G.O.P. loss was "disastrous," it wasn't. The Democrats (and moderate Republicans) have simply been given more rope with which to hold the President in check, not to hang themselves or the nation. Profligate Government spending looks no more attractive today than it did two years...
Faced with worrisome economic questions and no clear answers, the voters sought the safety of the center. Neither party could claim a mandate, but both made the usual exaggerated morning-after victory statements. "It is a disastrous defeat for the President," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "We are very pleased with the results," pronounced Reagan. But each also stressed that he recognized the need to work together now. "There has to be some bending on both sides," said O'Neill. "There have been concessions and compromises in both directions on all the major issues," Reagan said, "and we expect...
...Democrats responded by counterattacking. Tip O'Neill and Senator Edward Kennedy both raised the specter of a secret Republican plan to reduce Social Security benefits. But in general, the Democrats concentrated on assigning responsibility for the recession to the Republicans, calling Reagan's program a failure and inequitable. "It's not fair, it's Republican," proclaimed their ads. It was a case they couldn't fully sell...
...fact, the limited nature of the Democratic victory contained a silver lining for some party members. Tip O'Neill was privately relieved that Robert Michel was returned, because Democrats feel he is not an unbending ideologue. Other Democrats also professed some relief that they did not take a slim majority in the Senate, and thus face having to initiate their own alternative programs. Says Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts: "It's better not to give Reagan a Democratic Congress to run against. And by being in the wilderness for another two years, we will be a stronger party...