NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 7. 1984
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GOP maintains control of Senate despite losses
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Republicans kept a tight grip on control of the Senate yesterday, giving President Reagan a strong voice on Capitol Hill. But Sen. Roger Jepson of Iowa lost and Sen. Charles Percy faced possible defeat in Illinois.
Helms beats Hunt in fierce N.C. Senate race
Sen. Jesse Helms, the high apostle of the Republican right wing, easily beat Gov. James Hunt in North Carolina — a showcase election that climaxed the most expensive Senate campaign in American history.
Republicans, who went into the elections with a 55-45 Senate majority, appeared headed for no worse than a one-seat loss — a marginal erosion that should help Reagan's second-term agenda.
With only three races undeeped early today, the GOP could even pick up a seat.
ASSISTANT SENATE REPUBLICAN CAN leader Ted Stevens was considered a sure winner in Alaska and the final makeup of the Senate depended on Perey's battle against Democratic Rep. Paul Simon and a surprising run by former astronaut Jack
By United Press International
RALEIGH, N.C. — Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., "the godfather of the New Right," beat back a stiff challenge yesterday from popular Gov. James Hunt and won the most expensive Senate race in American history.
percent of the votes to 45 percent for Hunt with 28 percent of North Carolina's vote counted.
Reagan's landslide also helped Rep. James Martin, R-N.C., defeat Attorney General Rufus Edmisten to become North Carolina's second Republican governor this century.
Helms, riding a landslide victory by President Reagan, took an early lead and built it steadily throughout the night, taking 55
campaign and the race was judged a dead heat in the final hours.
Helms, 63, had trailed Hunt, 47, by as much as 20 percentage points in statewide popularity polls in the fall. He had not lost but gained ground late in the
Both candidates predicted that a fraction of a percentage point could decide the election.
"IT'S NECK-AND-NECK." Hunt said early in the evening, "It's time for the people of North Carolina to sweep aside all the distortions and mud and make their choice."
"I feel very confident about the situation," Helms said. "But it's
going to turn on who gets out the vote."
Helms pinned his hopes on a landside by Reagan. Hunt's supporters told the governor offered the "last best hope" of ousting Helms, who has led conservative causes favoring school prayer and opposition to abortion during his two terms in the Senate.
"If Helms is toppled, it will send a shudder through the New Right in this country." said Hunt campaign spokesman Will Marshall.
Lousma against Democratic Sen. Carl Levin in Michigan.
The only incumbents who lost — with Percy's and Levin's fates still in doubt — were Jepsen and Demow, as Walter Huddleston of Kentucky.
In Iowa, liberal Rep. Tom Harkin beat Jepsen, a conservative first
termer, whose dying campaign could not be saved even by Reagan.
SIMON, A 10-YEAR congressman, grabbed an early lead in Illinois and held it through most of the night. He was running well in Chicago and Cook County and ceding only the suburbs to Percy.
Jefferson County Judge Mitch McConnell scored the major upset of the night when he defeated Hudson, a former veteran, in one of the narrowest races.
With 81 percent of the precincts counted, Simon was leading by 51 to 48 percent, about the same margin he had from the moment the polls closed. But Percy, who would be the third successive chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations committee to lose, declared he was confident of victory and went to bed.
Lousa, written off in all the polls, was clinging to a steady 32-48 margin but the big Detroit vote, traditionally one of his favorites, had waged hope for a Levin second term.
of a former senator, captured Tennessee from the Republicans, defeating Victor Ashe for the seat in New Hampshire Senate GOP leader Howard Baker.
Hunt and Helms spent $23 million in the race for a post that pays $7,260 a year in a campaign that may have been more effective both relations and racial oxertones.
But their efforts to defeat Sen. Rudy Roschwitz in Minnesota, Sen. Gordon Humphrey in New Hampshire and Senator Mississippi failed. So did their hopes
of winning Texas, where Republican renegade Phil Gramm defeated state Sen. Lloyd Doggett.
REP, ALBERT GORE, Jr., the son
Democrats had counted on victories by Harkin in Iowa, Simon in Illinois and Hunt in North Carolina to cut into the Republicans' majority.
INCUMBENTS FROM BOTH parties swept to easy and almost uncontested victories. Sen. Bennett was one of the few earlier in the state's open primary
Republican dreams of scoring upsets in Nebraska and West Virginia failed. Democratic Gov. Jay Rockefeller won in West Virginia and Sen. James Exon were re-elected in Nebraska.
Among those elected: Sens. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., James McClure, R-Idaho, Howell Heflin, D-Ala, Joseph Biden, D-Del, Sam Numn, D-Ga, Nancy Kassebaum, one of two women in the Senate, Bill Bradley, D-N.J., Strom Thurmond, M-Baker, Strom D-S John Warner, R-Va., William R-Colo, Pete Domenici, R-N.M. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo, William Cohen, R-Maine, and Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. All had been expected to win.
Demos retain edge in House
Lt. Gov. John Kerry, who first came to fame as an antiwar Vietnam veteran, was elected for the Massachusetts seat left open by the retirement of Sen. Paul Tsongas, also a Democrat.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democrats zeroed in on majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday and battled Republican efforts to forge a coalition that would give the GOP effective legislative command in President Reagan's second term.
Democrats maintained the 218 seats they needed for numerical supremacy, based on United Press International projections in the "Hot 100" races pivotal to control of the House. But Republicans were holding out hope of winning back enough seats to work with conservative "Boll Weevil" Democrats to push through their programs.
By 12:15 a.m. CST, Democrats had captured 190 seats and Republicans had picked up 142. Democrats won four Republican seats, while nine Democratic seats moved into the Republican column. Democrats, virtually assured of 202 races being in their column, had won 36 of those "Hot 100" seats and Republicans had won 24. Democrats led in 17 key contests and Republicans were ahead in 23 others.
REPUBLICANS, CHEERED BY Reagan's landside victory, had hoped for a 25-seat gain to regain the conservative coalition they formed in
the first years of the Reagan administration.
But House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., noting earlier Democratic forecasts that GOP wins could run anywhere from 15 to 30 seats. In today that it appeared Republicans would only add about 10 seats.
"Americans looked to the Democrats and said, 'We want you to protect the safety net,' O'Nell said in an interview on CBS-TV.
"Mr. President, I'm going to help you keep your premises," he pledged in a speech at the conference.
Democrats entered the fray with 266 seats to 167 for the Republicans. Two seats, one Democratic and the other Republican, were vacant.
REAGAN'S COATTails enabled John Rowland to oust three-term Democratic veteran William Ratchford in Connecticut, and Democrat Joe Minish in New Jersey lost to Republican Dean Gallo
Republicans picked up two formerly Democratic seats where incumbents opted not to run again. Bob Smith defeated Dudley Dudley for the seat vacated by Rep. Norman Brown. After the Colorado Mike Strang beat Democrat W. Mitchell for the seat vacated by Democrat Ray Kovonevsk.
But Democrats countered by capturing Republican Rep. Lyle Williams' seat in Ohio, where James Traficant was the victor.
In Maryland, Democratic Rep. Clarence Long was trailing three-time challenger Bentley by a slim margin and election officials said the outcome could turn on a count of absentee ballots. The race for seven House campaigns where spending topped the $1 million mark.
NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS were in trouble. Rep Ike Andrews trailed a GOP challenger in a close race, Steven Neal cueing to a slim lead, and Robin Britt and James Bentley both were trailing. Bill Befher was ahead in a tight race.
In an upset, Republican Pat Swindall ousted five-term veteran Democrat Elliott Levitas in Georgia. Levitas was instrumental in House investigations of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The open Republican seat in Texas vacated by Phil Gramm, who ran for and won a Senate seat, stayed Republican, with Joseph Barton winning. The open Democratic seat in the 19th District was won by Republican Larry Combest, but the open Democratic 23rd District seat stayed in Democratic hands. However, five-term Democrat Jack Hightower lost his seat to Republican Beau Boulter.
United Press International
LAUDUE, Mo. — Kenneth Rothman, Democratic candidate for governor in Missouri, and his wife, Gert, are all smiles after voting at the Laude Chapel. Republican Attorney General John Ashcroft, however, yesterday defeated Rothman, the state's lieutenant governor. Ashcroft had 408,872 votes or 19 percent, to Rothman's 293,464 votes, 42 percent, with 54 percent of the precincts reporting at 11:30 p.m.
Voters set many ballot proposals to rest
By United Press International
Missouri voters also endorsed patrimutuel betting by a healthy margin and defeated a proposal to restrict nuclear power.
WASHINGTON — Casino gambling proposals lost their roll of the dice with voters in two states yesterday, but lotteries won in at least three others, including Missouri, as voters had their say on hundreds of ballot proposals nationwide.
The tax and spending revolt appeared to be having mixed success on the ballot this year. And there was no disappointment from conservative or liberal moral issues
- abortion financing restrictions were defeated in Washington state, bore state Equal Rights Amendment lost by a large margin in Maine.
Voters in California, Missouri and West Virginia approved lotties to the 17 states that had them before the election. The region also had a lottery on the ballot.
BUT PROPOSALS FOR casino
The tax revolt that began in the 1970s found its way to the ballot again this year — with four states taking up more than a quarter of the vote to be meeting with mixed success.
gambling in parts of Arkansas and Colorado, opposed by the states' governors and religious groups, were solidly defeated by margins of 2-to-1 or better with voters apparently not thinking that casinos would attract crime.
A tax rollback proposal was trailing in Michigan, but a package of tax and spending limits appeared headed for a healthy win in South Carolina. Oregon and Nevada also voted on strict limits. Louisiana has more than a trillion in spending limit plan designed to promote economic development.
VOTING WAS CLOSE in California on a plan designed to close loopholes in its trend-setting Proposition 13, in a campaign pitting tax-cut proponent Howard Jarvis against the political establishment, including Republican Gov. George Deukmeiian.
California defeated a proposal to limit campaign contributions that was strongly opposed by some Democrats. But a proposal backed by the state's right-to-remain opposition from the Democratic legislature was close.
South Dakota considered a nuclear freeze. Three states voted on restricting utilities or nuclear power. Missouri votes defeated restrictions in Indiana, power and Oregon and South Dakota voters also considered them.
punishment issues. Utah approved an amendment on the right to bear arms, and a similar proposal was leading in North Dakota. Oregon voters considered requiring the death penalty for aggravated murder and approving a "victim's bill of rights."
Los Angeles voters considered a proposal to urge Congress to cut defense spending and increase social spending.
Ten states voted on crime and
Proposals for welfare cuts lost decisively in California, but an advisory proposal to require that a prison be printed only in English was approved.
A PROPOSAL TO block state abortion financing lost in Washington, and was in a close fight in Colorado. Voluntary school prayer was approved by West Virginia colleges and universities eneded. But in Utah, "The Cabell TV Decency Act," to bar pornography from cable, was voted down.
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Maine voters defeated a state Equal Rights Amendment by a 65 percent to 35 percent margin.
District of Columbia voters approved a proposal to require the city to shelter the homeless, even though it should be built on whether it should be approved.
In Washington state, democrat Booth Gardner, heir to the Weyerhaeuser timber fortune, ousted Republican Gov. John Spellman; and in North Dakota, Democrat Gov. Alison Gump overed GOP Gov. Olson Alon.
The Arizona ballot had a complex proposal to impose strict controls on hospital costs.
There were at least 236 propositions on ballots this year in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Forty were initiatives brought by citizen petition and 196 were proposed by state legislatures, including bond issues in seven states.
IN WEST VIRGINIA, former Republican Gov. Arch Moore barely squeaked by in a victory over Democrat Dye See. The race was too close to call in Vermont, where the Democrats were trying to send Madeleine Kunin to the statehouse as
WASHINGTON — Voters booted two Republican governors from office yesterday, but the GOP captured at least eight of 13 contested governorships. Even so, Democrats said they held their own against the "tide" of President Reagan's landslide.
Utah House Speaker Norman Bangter beat Democrat Wayne Owens to become the state's first Republican governor in 20 years, by the unexpected retirement of Democratic Gov. Scott Matheson.
Republicans win 8, lose 2
Democrats held onto seats in Arkansas, where Gov Bill Clinton easily won a second term, and in Montana, with Democratic Gov Ted Schwinden was re-elected for another four years.
Indiana Republican Gov. Robert Orr was declared an early winner for a second term over Democratic state Sen. Wayne Townsend.
Delaware's Republican Lt. Gov.
Michael Castle soundly beat his
Democratic challenger, William
Quillen, who resigned from the state
Supreme Court to bid for the seat
vacated by retiring Gov. Pierre Du
Pont IV.
New Hampshire's GOP Gov John Sununu won easy re-election over Democrat rival Chris Spirou, and in Missouri, Republican Attorney General John Ashcroft triumphed over his Democratic opponent. Lt. Gov Kenneth Rothman.
Republican Rep. James Martin of North Carolina was elected governor over his Democratic challenger, Attorney General Rufus Edmisten.
the nation's second woman governor. She was deadlocked with Republican John Easton.
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