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...nation's hardest-fought and most publicized contest is for the Senate seat occupied by the dean of the New Right, North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, 63, who is being challenged by two-term Democratic Governor James Hunt, 47. Their race also is entering the record books as the most expensive U.S. legislative campaign ever, costing at least $20 million, 60% of it spent by Helms. The Senator charges that his opponent would too willingly resort to tax increases as a means of solving Washington's fiscal problems. For his part, Hunt has sought to portray Helms...
...Hunt, a Presbyterian, is quick to attack Helms for his positions on school prayer and abortion. "I believe in school prayer," the governor says. "But it can't be voluntary if it's authorized by public officials. I don't want Jesse Helms to write a prayer that my kids have to say in schools...
...opponent and fundamentalists are trying to dictate what the political agenda will be, what the Christian position is," Hunt says, adding that important issues "such as food for the hungry, a superb education for every child and keeping the peace" are thus excluded from the Helms' list of priorities...
Little has changed in the last 34 years. The tactics are more subtle, but the underlying issues are still present. Claude A. Allen, a spokesman for the Helms campaign, recently referred to Hunt's gay supporters as "the queers." And Helms's campaign literature is replete with subtle references to black voter registration and the feminist movement, both "the threats" to the white, male-dominated world of North Carolina's past...
Perhaps somewhere echoing in the minds of the fairgoers was Governor Hunt's sad comment in the closing moments of the final debate...