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...which explains why half a dozen major candidates have spent a record $20 million this year trying to occupy the grandiose state capitol that the Kingfish built in Baton Rouge 48 years ago. What is surprising is that for the first time since Reconstruction, a Republican, Congressman David Treen, 51, is favored to win the runoff on Dec. 8. That is not what the archpopulist Huey Long had in mind...
...they changed the election law so that candidates of both parties would all enter a single primary. They figured that the two top vote getters would invariably be Democrats, thus eliminating the problem of having anyone face a Republican in the runoff. They figured wrong. In the October primary, Treen outdistanced his adversaries, and will face Democrat Louis Lambert, 38, in the runoff...
...dull, almost dour campaigner, Treen is supported by Louisiana's lead ing newspapers and the business community. He has earned a high cumulative rating from the American Conservative Union-89 out of 100-during his four terms in Congress...
...terms of geography, the G.O.P. continued to nibble at the once-solid South. Republican David Treen, for instance, won in Louisiana to become that state's first G.O.P. Representative in a century. In other regions, Democratic majorities generally held firm. One of the more interesting races took place in New York's Westchester County. There the Republican establishment, starring Governor Nelson Rockefeller, attempted to defeat Congressman Ogden ("Brownie") Reid, once publisher of the old Herald Tribune, who recently switched to the Democrats. Even the President joined the effort. Reid's independent-minded constituents, however, stuck with their...
...Republican David Treen of Louisiana's bayou country is nothing if not persistent. Three times he ran against Congressman Hale Boggs and three times he lost. But each time he improved his percentage-34%, 44%, 49%-and this February he ran a strong but losing campaign for Governor. Now Treen, 44, is taking on J. Louis Watkins, 43, an attorney who managed both winning campaigns for retiring Democratic Congressman Patrick Caffery. Politics can be largely personal in southern Louisiana, and on that score Watkins is a formidable opponent. He is a French Catholic whose roots reach back 150 years...