Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often opposing batteries of TV spots merely cancel each other-or backfire. In the Utah senatorial contest, Republican Representative Laurence Burton posed sitting on a horse, his shirt open. The candidate looked so uncomfortable that Utah's cowboys and city folk laughed him off the screen and out of the race...
Farther west, Nixon had selected five incumbent Democratic Senators as likely targets for unseating: North Dakota's Quentin Burdick, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Utah's Frank Moss, New Mexico's Joseph Montoya and Nevada's Howard Cannon. Conservatives were recruited to run well-financed campaigns against the ostensibly vulnerable quintet. Campaigners from Washington hustled through. Agnew anointed Moss "the Western regional chairman of the Radic-Lib Eastern Establishment." Moss was re-elected easily, and the four other Democrats also won. Three of the Republicans put up against the incumbent Senators were House members; Democrats captured those three seats...
...Wednesday morning, it was easy for liberals to see the Apocalpyse arrived. Goodell, Duffey, Hoff, Tydings, and Gore all met defeat at the hands of Nixon men. Yet as the morning wore on and the cameras began to focus on the Western boards, the results were different. In Indiana, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota, and Wyoming, where Conservatives of the true mold had given their votes to the Republicans in 1968, the Administration bootlickers met ignominious defeat. And in California, a topsy-turvy state where currents and trends are so many and so strong, where San Jose had whipped the reactionary...
Build me a cabin in Utah...
...sparsely populated Western states with Democratic Senators were the special targets of Nixon-Agnew assaults. In all four the voters returned the incumbents to office with convincing majorities. Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada, Sen. Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Sen. Gale McGee of Wyoming, and Sen. Frank Moss of Utah all won with better than 55 per cent...