Word: democratically
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...YORK. "I'm a Senator first and a campaigner second," cried New York Republican Charles Goodell last week. The political consensus is that by next January, Goodell will be neither. Boxed in by liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger and Conservative Party Candidate James Buckley, Goodell is running third. His seat is one of four that the Republicans are in grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation...
CALIFORNIA. Gray-haired and raspy-voiced from a successful operation for throat cancer, oldtime Hoofer George Murphy, 68, is trying to dance out of the way of a strong challenge to his bid for a second Senate term by a Democrat named Tunney. If the Tunney were Gene, a contemporary, Murphy could worry less. But it is John. 36-year-old son of the former heavyweight champion, a three-term Congressman who looks, talks and acts like a somehow unaccounted-for Kennedy brother...
...Reagan country, Tunney has tried to neutralize the permissiveness tag that is automatically affixed to every liberal Democrat...
DELAWARE: Here is a clear liberal vs. conservative race. The conservative, Republican Rep. William V. Roth, is the front runner. Opposing him for the seat being relinquished by retiring Republican Senator John J. Williams is Democrat Jacob W. Zimmerman. Zimmerman is a strong opponent of the war and favors limiting the war-making powers of the President. In a state which is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Duponts and which has a sizeable group of Wallace supporters, Zimmerman is clearly the underdog...
ILLINOIS: Ever since his reconciliation last summer with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III has been the favorite to win the seat held for 20 years by Everett Dirksen. His opponent, Republican Senator Ralph T. Smith, was appointed to fill the remainder of Dirksen's term and is still relatively unknown in the state. He is an employer of the Agnew style and has attacked Stevenson as a radical-liberal...