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...surging Reagan tide: in Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Specter edged out former Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty; in North Carolina, John East, a professor of political science at East Carolina State University and protégé of Republican Senator Jesse Helms, came from behind to unseat Democratic Incumbent Robert Morgan; in Georgia, Herman Talmadge was upset by Businessman Mack Mattingly. Ironically, the man who next to Reagan is most identified with conservatism almost lost. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, 71, seemed infirm to many voters but managed to eke out a narrow victory. Some of the key Senate...
Fall of the Mighty. Until this year, the House leaders on both sides of the aisle have had an unspoken agreement that they would not try to unseat each other. But this summer Vander Jagt met with other Republicans and decided to break with tradition by mounting stiff challenges to high-ranking Democrats. It worked...
...still too early to tell if the Republicans' biggest gamble will pay off: namely, an all-out effort to unseat the House Democratic leaders. Republicans thought they discerned substantial erosion in the Democratic elders' home bases, and indeed some weakness has been exposed. Acknowledges House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The people who put them in Congress in the first place are no longer around. Their organizations are not there...
...generations, that has been the gentlemanly tradition. Despite their sometimes fiery fights in the House, the leaders of the two parties-the top half-dozen men in the House on both sides of the aisle-have not tried to unseat each other. The idea of doing so still shocks some oldtimers. When House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona, who has served 14 terms, was asked if he would campaign this year against Speaker Tip O'Neill, he replied, "There's no way I'd be against Tip. I don't agree with...
...Republican leaders, however, share Rhodes' allegiance to the old political rules. In fact, the National Republican Congressional Committee this year is cold-bloodedly working hard to unseat nearly all of the House Democratic leaders. The break with tradition was engineered by the committee's chairman, Michigan Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, who is unopposed for re-election and hopes to succeed Rhodes as G.O.P. floor leader...