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...only 13 states are picking a chief executive and most incumbents running for re-election are safe. One who is not, however, is Washington's John Spellman, 57, a Republican. In that state's nonpartisan primary in September, so many Republicans crossed over to vote for Democrat Booth Gardner, 48, the little-known chief executive of Pierce County, that the bland, cautious Spellman wound up with a mere 27% of the total vote. The latest polls show Gardner, a crisp administrator with a Harvard M.B.A., running 17% ahead of Spellman. The Governor has taken to shrill attacks...
...Amours has been grinding his way up in the Potts. Most show him a point or two behind Humphrey, with enough undecided voters to make the gap irrelevant. The fate of this race will likely be decided by last-minute voting booth decisions, and perhaps the Thursday visit of the Godhead himself, President Reagan, which will be thoroughly televised by New Hamshire stations...
Further east, further down the economic scale, at the K mart on 65th Street, a woman in the check-out line flashes one of those sidelong looks that speak of revenge to be taken in the privacy of the voting booth. She says, "I'm from West Virginia. I find, in the family, it's the men who do most of the talking against having a woman Vice President. But hillbilly women stick together, you know what I mean? As my momma always said, 'The thread gets very thin, but don't ever give...
Evans landed the Emperor of Trivia slot at WABC in May after he set up a booth outside the ABC building in New York and asked trivia questions to random pedestrians...
ABOUT TWO WEEKS ago, many Seattlites received a political plea for support on behalf of Booth Gardner a Democrat hopeful for the governor hip. This short note, courteously addressed. "Dear Friend of Senator Jackson,' stated that the Senator had originally "encouraged" Gardner to run, and was fully behind his assault on the Governor's chair. This endorsement was highly unusual; Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson was never one to become overly involved in local election, the more so after his death more than a year...