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...Harris Wofford is the luckiest of incumbent U.S. Senators. He has the title and the perks that go with it, but he hasn't been around long enough to be tarred as a Washington insider -- a decided plus given the current political environment...
Whether or not Wofford upsets former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in this week's special election in Pennsylvania, the magnitude and reasons for his comeback from near oblivion offer significant lessons for those unlucky enough to be seeking re-election in 1992, including, especially, George Bush...
From the moment of his appointment last May following the death of Republican John Heinz in a plane crash, Wofford, a Great Society liberal, began transforming himself into a Huey Long-like Democratic populist. In one early move, Wofford rejected the $150,000 he was supposed to receive for mass mailing expenses. In another, he renounced the $23,200 pay raise the Senate had voted itself. "There's a national recession out there," said Wofford. "Now is no time for us to be paying ourselves more of our taxpayers' hard- earned dollars." Wofford gave the extra money to a charity...
With partisan politics at their height, it's also not a good time for the Republicans to lose ground in the Senate. Wofford only increases the Democratic majority by one vote, but it is solid liberal vote in the place of a moderate Republican one. In very close votes (such as Supreme Court confirmations, veto overrides on civil rights bills, etc.) this could make a big difference...
Thornburgh campaigned as the ultimate insider. Wofford bludgeoned him with...