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Public Outrage. Thus for Democrats, last week's euphoria was short-lived, even though they had scored their greatest mid-term election triumph since 1958. In the House, they apparently increased their control by 43 seats, to a total of 291, or one more than the two-thirds required to override vetoes. In the Senate, they added three seats ?and possibly four, depending on the outcome of the close race in North Dakota?to their existing majority of 58. Further, the Democrats wrested nine statehouses from Republicans, while giving up only four of their own, not including Alaska, where...
Some Republicans feared that the defeat portended the eventual end of their party. They noted that only 23% of U.S. adults classify themselves as Republican, down five points since 1972. A decade ago, the party bounced back from the Goldwater debacle and was victorious in the mid-term elections of 1966. But G.O.P. Leader Rita E. Hauser of New York City fears that Republicans may not be able to do so now. She explains: "Six years of Nixon-Agnew-Ford have pushed the party too far to the right. The party has become too narrowly based...
...sharpness and heat of this affair were to a considerable degree a continuation of the interparty electoral struggle which began in 1972 after the crushing defeat of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party had to work out some sort of basis or platform in its preparation for the mid-term election this November and the presidential election...
Today is the final day for students to register to vote if they plan to participate in the first step in the selection of delegates to the Democratic Party's first mid-term convention...
There has been little doubt for months that the consuming issue of the 1974 mid-term vote will be Watergate. But with Election Day just seven months away, candidates and leaders of both parties are increasingly realizing that much of the campaign may unfold against more than just a scandal: it could well coincide with the first presidential impeachment proceeding in more than a century...