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Notable victims of the GOP on-slaught included the most venerable giants of the liberal old guard: Sens. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Frank Church (D-Idaho), and Reps. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) and John Brademas (D...
...only had the GOP ousted the bulk of the Senate's liberal old guard--headed by the likes of Sens. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), and Frank Church (D-Idaho)--but it had also gained a majority in the house (53-47) for the first time since...
Liberal Sens. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) and John C. Culver '54 (D-Iowa) also lost to conservative challengers, who were backed by New Right and evangelical political action committees...
...other important contests, Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.), head of the Senate Agriculture Committee, overcame accusations of corruption and an official Senate "denouncement" to defeat opponent Mack Mattingly, while incumbent Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), Robert Dole (R-Ka,) and Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) all marched to convincing victories...
Unlike Talmadge, several House members were crushed by scandal. Indicated Abscam conspirators Reps. John Jenrette (D-S.C.), Frank Thompson (D-N.J.), John Murphy (D-N.Y.), and Michael Myers (D-Pa.) all lost, as did Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.), who had to answer to charges of alcoholism and homosexuality...