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FROM THE FIELD -- 1990 Election ResultsCampaign & Elections Magazine, December/January 1991 By David Beiler
Here are the results of 1990's general elections, with notations
of resources committed. An asterik (*) denotes incumbency. Percentage
figures in parentheses following a candidate's name refer to vote
share. Numbers following a dollar sign ($) represent net receipts in
thousands, including funds rolled over from the last cycle. Federal
figures are from the FEC, current through 10-17-90; state figures are
current through various dates in late October. Only major candidates
and competitive races are listed.
ALABAMA
SEN -- DEM: Howell Heflin* (61%-$3,789);
GOP: st. Sen. Bill Cabaniss (39%-$1,656).
GOV -- GOP: Guy Hunt* (52%-$5,193);
DEM: AEA head Dr. Paul Hubbert (48%-$5,489).
H/2 -- GOP: Bill Dickinson* (51%-$808);
DEM: Faye Baggiano (49%-$145).
H/5 -- DEM: D.A. Bud Cramer (67%-$578);
GOP: Ag. Cmsr. Al McDonald (33%-$176).
Faced with Hubbert's late surge and superior ground forces, Hunt
succeeded in tying the Democrat to union featherbedding and threatened
black domination: The governor's closing media made much of Joe Reed,
the leading black organziation man in Alabama.
Dickinson's ethical problems were barely surmounted by his 4-1
spending bulge.
Dateline 1962: top contenders for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination areex-Gov. Jim Folsom, state Sen. Ryan deGraffenreid and
Barbour County Judge George Wallace. Briefly, 1994 was looking like a
time capsule with LG Jim Folsom, Jr., state Sen. Ryan deGraffenreid,
Jr., and state Treasurer George Wallace, Jr. expected to lead the Demo
pack. Then George, Jr. spoiled it all shortly after this year's
election by announcing his political retirement four years in advance.
ALASKA
GOV -- IND: ex-Gov. Walter Hickel (39%-$895);
DEM: ex-Anchorage Mayor Tony Knowles (31%-$1,297);
GOP: st. Sen. Arliss Sturgulewski (27%-$1,250).
H/AL -- GOP: Don Young* (51%-$474);
DEM: Valdez Mayor John Devens (49%-$146).
With two liberals leading the major parties, this state's large
"boomer" element of self-styled frontier folk united behind the
71-year-old Hickel. Defections came primarily from Republicans.
Pro-growth Devens appealed to the "Hicks," nearly giving him a
completely unforseen upset.
ARIZONA
GOV -- GOP: J. Fife Symington (50%-$1,687);
DEM: Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard (49%-$959).
The ghost of "Evan the Terrible" Mecham continues to wreak havoc
here. His 1987 recision of the Martin Luther King holiday ignited a
controversy which spilled onto the 1990 Arizona ballot. When voters
rejected the observance by a two-point margin, the NFL began pulling
the 1993 Super Bowl out of Phoenix--a $200 million loss to the local
economy. Another Mecham legacy: Arizona is the only state in the
country which requires a runoff if the general election produces no
majority winner, a task it missed this year by 0.3 percent. New finish
line: February 26. Caretaker Gov. Rose Mofford (D) will have to sit a
while longer.
ARKANSAS
GOV -- DEM: Bill Clinton* (57%-$2,121);
GOP: Sheffield Nelson (43%-$1,800).
H/2 -- DEM: ex-Rep. Ray Thornton (60%-$539);
GOP: st. Rep. Jim Keet (40%-$375).
No surprises here; Razorback voters are oddly docile these days.
Clinton convinced them he had a lot to show for his decade on the job,
but his pledge not to run for president in '92 probably clinched it.
CALIFORNIA
GOV -- GOP: US Sen. Pete Wilson (49%-$16,800);
DEM: ex-S.F. Mayor Dianne Feinstein (46%-$15,300).
H/1 -- GOP: Frank Riggs (43%-$160);
DEM: Doug Bosco* (42%-$320);
PAF: Darlene Comingore (15%-$4).
H/9 -- DEM: Pete Stark* (59%-$605);
GOP: Victor Romero (41%-$193).
H/14 -- GOP: st. Sen. John Doolittle (51%-$398);
DEM: Patricia Malberg (49%-$202).
H/17 -- DEM: Calvin Dooley (55%-$328);
GOP: Chip Pashayan* (45%-$483).
H/19 -- GOP: Bob Lagomarsino* (54%-$575);
DEM: Anite Perez-Ferguson (46%-$157).
H/23 -- DEM: Tony Beilenson* (62%-$238);
GOP: Jim Salomon (34%-$301).
H/36 -- DEM: George Brown* (53%-$626);
GOP: Bob Hammock (47%-$413).
H/37 -- GOP: Al McCandless* (49%-$405);
DEM: actor Ralph Waite (45%-$459).
H/44 -- GOP: Randy "Duke" Cunningham (46%-$365);
DEM: Jim Bates* (45%-$662).
LT. GOV. -- DEM: Leo McCarthy* (52%-$1,493);
GOP: st. Sen. Marian Bergeson (42%-$1,101).
AG -- GOP: ex-Dong. Dan Lungren (47%-$1,617);
DEM: S.F. DA Arlo SMith (46%-$1,599).
TREAS -- DEM: Kathleen Brown (49%-$2,200);
GOP: Tom Hayes* (45%-$1,800).
SEC of ST. -- DEM: March Fong Eu* (52%-$583);
GOP: Joan Milke-Flores (40%-$924).
"Picture perfect." That's the concensus on the Wilson campaign,
which surged at the critical T-minus two-weeks mark. The well-timed
after burners were fueled by Wilson's endorsement of Prop 140, the
measure limiting legislative terms.
Willie Brown & the BAD Boys gave 140 a good working-over in paid
media, but could only knock its initial 70% approval down to 52% on
election day. The best legal minds politicans can buy (there's a
switch) are now busily plotting to scuttle the new law in court.
With both Senate seats now up in the air following Alan Cranston's
retirement announcement, an earthquake of ambition is beginning to
rumble along the San Adreas. Congressman Dave Dreier (R) and Mel
Levine (D) each have $1.5 million war chests and are eager to invest
it in advancement, but big race veterans Feinstein, McCarthy and
ex-Cong. Ed Zschau (R) look like the strongest candidates at the
moment. Ex-Gov. Jerry Brown has been ruled a bust as Demo Chair after
a promising start. Old Brown operatives will probably opt for state
Comptroller Gray Davis, Gov. Moonbeam's old staff chief.
Bosco was on no one's endangered list, but got waylaid over the
offshore drilling issue. Both Riggs and Comingore denounced his
alleged affinity for big oil, and enough liberal "greens" voted the
Peace & Freedom line in protest to sink the 4-term vet.
Environmentalists had little else to show here--"Big Green" was a
big bust, and all their other measures lost as well. Lesson: don't
send the voters a blueprint for your own candy store; go for the
simple, direct, and most significant.
COLORADO
SEN -- GOP: H/4 Cong. Hank Brown (57%-$3,763);
DEM: ex-Boulder Co. Comm. Josie Heath (43%-$411).
GOV -- DEM: Roy Romer* (63%-$1,590);
GOP: John Andrews (37-$275).
H/3 -- DEM: Pat Schroeder* (64%-$659);
GOP: Gloria Roemer (36%-$141).
H/4 -- GOP: st. Sen. Wayne Allard (54%-$256);
DEM: st. Rep. Dick Bond (46%-$402).
Saddam Hussein demolished Heath's semi-pacifistic platform.
The Silverado S&L scandal proved to be a complete bust here. Both
Brown and Romer were tainted by it, but neither had much trouble
brushing aside weak, baggage-laden opposition.
Allard made an issue of Bond's "high-priced consultants" and
overcame a marked deficit in money and expertise.
CONNECTICUT
GOV -- IND: ex-US Sen. Lowell Weicker (40%-$2,010);
GOP: H/5 Cong. John Rowland (38%-$2,054);
DEM: H/3 Cong. Bruce Morrison (20%-$1,639).
H/3 -- DEM: Rosa DeLauro (52%-$819);
GOP: st. Sen. Tom Scott (48%-$214).
H/5 -- GOP: Gary Franks (52%-$360);
DEM: ex-Cong. Toby Moffett (47%-$670).
Weicker's warm-and-fuzzy campaign--with hearthside chats about
Connecticut values--succeeded in blunting his irascible image and
made him a comfortable haven for liberals determined to avoid the
hard-right Rowland. By barely clearing the 20% threshold, Morrison
was spared from pushing the Democrats into a "minor party" status
that would have required their nominees to gather petitions for a
place on the ballot.
Having run in a Democratic district with a 3-1 money bulge over a
radical-right Republican, DeLauro won't be boasting about her four-
point victory.
Wary of wayfaring stranger Moffett, the red-inked, white-skinned,
and blue-collared Fifth has elected a congressman it may not warm to.
Supply-sider Franks is the first black Republican the House has seen
since Chicago's Oscar DePriest got washed out in the New Deal flood
of 1934.
DELAWARE
SEN -- DEM: Joe Biden* (63%-$2,713);
GOP: Asst. AG Jane Brady (37%-$202).
The ill-starred Biden is still taken as a good omen in the First
State.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MAYOR -- DEM: ex-DNC Treasurer Sharon Pratt Dixon (86%-$677);
GOP: ex-Police Chief Maurice Turner (11%-$706).
CONG. DEL. -- DEM: Eleanor Holmes Norton (62%-$399);
GOP: Harry Singleton (26%-$58).
Despite being endorsed by the police, the ministers, and 300 sign-
plastering relatives, Turner's image as a captive of 1600 Pennsylvania
doomed him to an ignominious defeat. Dixon has busied herself trying
to shovel lame-duck Mayor Marion Barry off to oblivion ASAP.
Prevailing over her Washington Post-endorsed opponent, despite a
7-year failure to file DC returns, Norton is poised to provide--in the
words of Mark Shields--"representation without taxation."
FLORIDA
GOV -- DEM: ex-US Sen. Lawton Chiles (57%-$4,076);
GOP: Bob Martinez* (43%-$10,441).
H/1 -- DEM: Earl Hutto* (52%-$254);
GOP: Terry Ketchel (48%-$117).
H/2 -- DEM: Pete Peterson (57%-$199);
GOP: Bill Grant* (43%-$735).
H/5 -- GOP: Craig James* (56%-$523);
DEM: Reid Hughes (44%-$799).
H/11 -- DEM: Jim Bacchus (52%-$665);
GOP: Bill Tolley (48%-$258).
H/14 -- DEM: Harry Johnston* (66%-$458);
GOP: Scott Shore (34%-$171).
H/18 -- GOP: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen* (60%-$478);
DEM: Bernard Anscher (40%-$111).
H/19 -- DEM: Dante Fascell (62%-$981);
GOP: Bob Allen (38%-$146).
TREAS -- GOP: Tom Gallagher* (57%-$2521);
DEM: st. Sen. George Stuart (43%-$1,905).
ED COMM -- DEM: Betty Castor* (66%-$1,052);
GOP: ex-Gov. Claude Kirk (34%-$35).
AG COMM -- DEM: Bob Crawford (55%-$);
GOP: Charles Bronson (45%-$).
Handwringing journalists are pointing to Chiles' resounding
victory as proof that massively financed negative campaigns are no
longer effective. True, the Walking Senator limited donations to
$100 and beat an incumbent, but he was hardly an unknown after 18
years in the Senate and actually dropped almost half his margin over
the course of the campaign.
Turncoat Grant was heavily favored over ex-POW Peterson, but the
glaring contrast about keeping one's loyalties was too much for a
district still registered 7-1 Democratic.
The Panhandle Demo who should have switched was Hutto, who got a
rude awakening from his heavily militarized constituency. The First
has been voting Republican at the front end of the ballot as much as
any district in the South in recent years.
The "Paper Cuspidor" award goes to the Hughes campaign for trying
to tie James to child abuse for merely having once represented a
school later charged (but not indicted) with the crime. The last-
minute mudpie turned an even race into a stunning rejection of the
perpetrator.
Supreme Court Justice Leander Shaw took 60% in his re-elect bid
despite fierce opposition from pro-lifers aroused by his nullification
of a parental consent law.
GEORGIA
GOV -- DEM: Lt. Gov. Zell Miller (53%-$6,607);
GOP: st. Rep. Johnny Isakson (45%-$$2,734).
H/4 -- DEM: Ben Jones* (52%-$593);
GOP: st. Rep. John Linder (48%-$330).
H/6 -- GOP: Newt Gingrich* (50%-$1,331);
DEM: David Worley (50%-$276).
H/9 -- DEM: Ed Jenkins* (56%-$688);
GOP: Charles Hoffman (44%-$122).
H/10 -- DEM: Doug Barnard* (58%-$1,137);
GOP: Sam Jones (42%-$145).
Bored with 16 years of Miller as LG, a surprising number of
Georgians turned to the moderate, attractive Isakson--despite
monumental disadvantages in money, organization, and registration.
Pat Robertson dropped a massive mailing on Fourth District voters--
replete with sacrilegious and homo-erotic photos--in an effort to tie
Jones to federal funding for such art. Cooter decried the charge as
groundless, but the race quickly closed--23 points worth if you
believe the Atlanta Constitution poll conducted just before the porn
pitch.
Because Worley made an issue out of the $35,000 pay raise, the
national Demo machine cut him off from assistance (per agreement with
the GOP), giving arch-nemesis Gingrich a new lease on political life.
Watch for Demo redistricting to push Newt into a '92 race against
Sen. Wyche Fowler (D), if not George Bush.
HAWAII
GOV -- DEM: John Waihee* (61%-$4,384);
GOP: st. Rep. Fred Hemmings (39%-$576).
SEN -- DEM: Daniel Akaka* (54%-$1,266);
GOP: H/1 Cong. Pat Saiki (45%-$1,685).
H/1 -- DEM: ex-Cong. Neil Abercrombie (61%-$380);
GOP: Hse. Min. Leader Michael Liu (39%-$214).
H/2 -- DEM: Patsy Mink* (68%-$499);
GOP: Ex-st. Rep. Andrew Poepoe (32%-$160).
A pervasive reverence for authority makes incumbents almost
unbeatable here, and saved Akaka's face as voters made their final
meditations.
Holdover-hippie Abercrombie blew by charges he was soft on the
Island's pot producers.
IDAHO
SEN -- GOP: H/1 Cong. Larry Craig (61%-$1,495);
DEM: Ex-st. Sen. Ron Twilegar (39%-$395).
GOV -- DEM: Cecil Andrus* (67%-$545);
GOP: ex. Sen. Maj. Ldr. Roger Fairchild (33%-$144).
H/1 -- DEM: Larry LaRocco (53%-$332);
GOP: st. Sen. Skip Smyser (47%-$367).
H/2 -- DEM: Richard Stallings* (63%-$346);
GOP: Sean McDevitt 937%-$98).
Here--as in Utah--the Mormon tradition of communal action is
beginning to assert itself against the social conservatism which made
these areas solidly Republican. In addition to massive mandates for
Andrus and Stallings and the recapture of the long-lost First, Demos
scooped up eight legislative seats.
ILLINOIS
SEN -- DEM: Paul Simon* (65%-$9,032);
GOP: H/16 Cong. Lynn Martin (35%-$4,665).
GOV -- GOP: Sec. of St. Jim Edgar (52%-$10,800);
DEM: AG Neil Hartigan (48%-$7,600).
H/2 -- DEM: George Sangmeister* (59%-$430);
GOP: Homewood Mayor Manny Hoffman (41%-$469).
H/11 -- DEM: Frank Annunzio* (54%-$808);
GOP: st. Sen. Walter Dudycz (46%-$277).
H/16 -- DEM: Jon Cox (55%-$304);
GOP: st. Rep. John Hallock (45%-$418).
H/17 -- DEM: Lane Evans* (67%-$395);
GOP: Dan Lee (33%-$108).
The tax issue, feminists, and money never showed for Martin.
The black Chicago wards usually needed to put a Democrat over
statewide contributed little to Hartgan: Turnout was historically
low and Edgar unusually strong (21 percent) there; the Harold
Washington Party was surprisingly influential in its campaign to
boycott the race.
The last time the 16th had a Democratic congressman, he was beaten
by a Whig...the Republicans had yet to be formed. Hallock's affinity
for speeding tickets put him in the fast lane to oblivion.
There may be a way Rich Daley can lose the Chicago mayoralty this
Spring, but no one has pointed it out yet.
Oh, yeah: Jane Byrne is back. (Doesn't she ever leave?)
INDIANA
SEN -- GOP: Dan Coats* (54%-$3,831);
DEM: st. Rep. Baron Hill (46%-$1,002).
H/2 -- DEM: Phil Sharp* (59%-$680);
GOP: Mike Pence (41%-$521).
H/3 -- DEM: Tim Roemer (51%-$422);
GOP: John Hiller* (49%-$632).
H/4 -- DEM: Jill Long* (61%-$597);
GOP: Rick Hawks (39%-$442).
H/5 -- DEM: Jim Jontz* (53%-$475);
GOP: John Johnston (47%-$480).
H/8 -- DEM: Frank McCloskey* (55%-$408);
GOP: Dick Mourdock (45%-$115).
SEC. of ST. -- DEM: Joe Hogsett* (52%-$1,799);
GOP: Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut (48%-$1,381).
Message to Coats: If an anonymous state rep can come within
seven points of you after being outspent 4-1, this first, two-year
term may well be your last. Expect a Long, Sharp upHill climb to
re-election in '92.
Roemer's "Washington Insider" brand proved less of a drag than
Hiller's bank ties and S&L record.
Hudnut's defeat by Gov. Bayh's trusted lieutenant appears to have
insured Democratic patronage control for the next six years.
IOWA
SEN -- DEM: Tom Harkin* (54%-$5,161);
GOP: H/2 Cong. Tom Tauke (46%-$4,459).
GOV -- GOP: Terry Branstad* (61%-$2,810);
DEM: Hs. Spkr. Don Avenson (39%-$1,087).
H/2 -- GOP: Jim Nussle (50%-$324);
DEM: Eric Tabor (50%-$456).
As with South Dakota's Pressler, the DC mob touted Harkin as a
prime target simply because they disliked his personality. Farm state
voters are more substanial in their thinking.
Branstad's massive win underscores one of 1990's prime strategic
lessons: If abortion is a subdued issue during a campaign, the pro-
lifer has an advantage.
Tabor lost a sure thing when his press secretary was caught
illegally registering Ma, Pa, Sis, and Rover in the district.
KANSAS
GOV -- DEM: st. Treas. Joan Finney (53%-$466);
GOP: Mike Hayden* (47%-$2,470).
H/5 -- GOP: Dick Nichols (59%-$421);
DEM: ex-st. Rep. George Wingert (41%-$50).
What little campaigning Finney coule muster was roundly panned by
the critics, but re-electing Hayden was a taxing problem no one could
solve.
KENTUCKY
SEN -- GOP: Mitch McConnell* (52%-$5,530);
DEM: ex-Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane (48%-$2,618).
H/3 -- DEM: Romano Mazzoli* (61%-$292);
GOP: Al Brown (39%-$296).
H/7 -- DEM: Chris Perkins* (51%-$325);
GOP: Will Scott (49%-$137).
A tough, crafty, and nimble campaign barely returned McConnell
past a bumbling Sloane.
A private life more typical of Hollywood than Harlan nearly did in
political scion Perkins.
LG Brereton Jones (D) and First Lady Martha Wilkinson have each
raised about $3 million for the '91 gubernatorial derby. Voters are
taking a dim view of Her Surrogacy, but the image wizards have yet to
hocus their pocus. Lexington Mayor Scotty Baesler and
ex-Transportation Secretary Floyd Poore trail in the Demo heat. Late-
starting Cong. Larry Hopkins will have the GOP field to himself; he
needs the time to stock his war chest.
LOUISIANA
SEN -- DEM: Bennett Johnston* (54%-$5,408);
GOP: st. Rep. David Duke (44%-$2,321);
st. Sen. Ben Bagert (W-D-$567).
H/2 -- DEM: st. Sen. William Jefferson (52%-$257);
Marc Morial (48%-$306).
H/4 -- GOP: Jim McCrery* (55%-$361);
DEM: st. Sen. Foster Campbell (45%-$252).
H/7 -- DEM: Jimmy Hayes* (58%-$230);
GOP: David Thibodaux (38%-$134).
H/8 -- GOP: Clyde Holloway* (56%-$213);
DEM: st. Sen. Cleo Fields (30%-$120);
st. Sen. Joe McPherson (14%-$141).
Welcome to the Third World. The '91 coup for Caudillo will be
fought between the adoring guerillas of three charismatic dons:
Incumbent Buddy "Angry Man" Roemer, installed with the slogan "A
Revolution for Louisiana"; Edwin Edwards, the bon-vivant strongman
of old whose last triumphant cry was "Edwahn giveth, the Republicans
taketh away"; and David Duke, the restrained one, whose uniform has
varied between brown shirts and white sheets. With blacks and Cajuns
going for Edwards, bubbas for Duke, leftovers for Roemer, a runoff is
certain.
MAINE
SEN -- GOP: William Cohen* (61%-$1,391);
DEM: st. Rep. Neil Rolde (39%-$1,410).
GOV -- GOP: Jock McKernan* (47%-$1,503);
DEM: H/1 Rep. & ex-Gov. Joe Brennan (44%-$1,339).
H/1 -- DEM: st. Sen. Tome Andrews (60%-$546);
GOP: Ex-Cong. David Emery (40%-$294).
H/2 -- GOP: Olympia Snowe* (51%-$240);
DEM: st. Rep. Pat McGowan (49%-$175).
McKernan set a good example of how to survive when you're the man
at the top and times are tough below. Trailing significantly from the
outset, he steadily chronicled his substantive performance and earned
a contract extension on merit.
His wife, Olympia, may have forgotten she too was up for renewal.
Her narrow escape was one of the year's several hidden shockers.
MARYLAND
GOV -- DEM: William Donald Schaefer* (60%-$2,426);
GOP: Bill Shepard (40%-$107).
H/1 -- GOP: Wayne Gilchrest (57%-$125);
DEM: Roy Dyson* (43%-$655).
Willie Don's whacko shtick has worn thin, partifcularly with gun
buffs and double-crossed pro-lifers. Enough to cut his margin to a
third of his astonishing initial mandate in '86, despite facing a
nuisance candidate who ran his wife as LG.
Dyson proved a sleaze to the end, slinging a distorted charge of
campaign fund-skimming at the close of an election eve debate.
Gilchrest will be one of several free-spirited freshmen; Three years
ago he spent a year in the wilds of Idaho seeking the meaning of life.
God knows why he expects to find it in DC.
MASSACHUSETTS
SEN -- DEM: John Kerry* (57%-$6,892);
GOP: James Rappaport (43%-$3,745).
GOV -- GOP: ex-US Atty. William Weld (52%-$2,412);
DEM: Boston U. Pres. John Silber (48%-$2,561).
H/5 -- DEM: Chet Atkins* (52%-$601);
GOP: st. Rep. John MacGovern (48%-$141).
H/10 -- DEM: Gerry Studds* (53%-$464);
GOP: Jon Bryan (47%-$237).
Silber's restraint in the general had him coasting to victory; then
he slurred Weld as "that back-stabbing son-of-a-bitch...orange-headed
WASP," and conducted a last-minute verbal slugfest with CBS' Lesley
Stahl. As CNN's Ken Bode noted, "Silber is the only candidate angrier
than the voters." Empowering such rage proved too radical a thought--
even for Bay Staters.
Rappaport couldn't get around the impression he was buying a family
seat: A sizable portion of his contributors were pre-adolescent
relatives.
Barney Frank's only visible opposition withdrew, but his troubles
may have rubbed off on neighboring gay collegue Studds.
A ballot measure to roll back state income taxes slid to a 10-point
loss as Silber railed against it and Weld crusaded for it. As usual,
voters chose to separate their consideration of candidates and issues.
MICHIGAN
SEN -- DEM: Carl Levin* (58%-$6,662);
GOP: H/10 Cong. Bill Schuette (42%-$2,266).
GOV -- GOP: st. Sen. John Engler (50%-$3,443);
DEM: JIm Blanchard* (50%-$3,220).
H/3 -- DEM: Howard Wolpe* (58%-$658);
GOP: Brad Haskins (42%-$265).
H/12 -- DEM: Dave Bonior* (66%-$1,088);
GOP: Jim Dingeman (34%-$262).
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young's growing distaste for Blanchard
translated into sparse Demo margins in the inner city and a GOP
capture of the governorship.
MINNESOTA
SEN -- DEM: Paul Wellstone (52%-$818);
GOP: Rudy Boschwitz* (48%-$7,254).
GOV -- GOP: Arne Carlson (50%-$616);
DEM: Rudy Perpich* (50%-$1,603).
H/3 -- GOP: st. Sen. Jim Ramstad (63%-$380);
DEM: ex-Minneapolis Cncl. Pres. Lou DeMars (37%-$115).
H/7 -- DEM: ex-st. Sen. Colin Peterson (54%-$241);
GOP: Arlan Stangeland* (46%-$437).
The most spectacular campaign success of the year belongs to
Wellstone, who could not have run more to the outside. His zany,
innovative advertising got far more free than paid expsoure;
ironically (or perhaps, obviously), it was designed by an ad-hoc
group of local product advertisers. In contrast, Boschwitz media
maven Bob Goodman has now lost five of his last six Senate incumbents.
MISSISSIPPI
H/5 -- DEM: Gene Taylor* (81%-$240);
GOP: Sheila Smith (19%-$128).
Still no significant opposition on the '91 horizon for Gov. Ray
Mabus (D), but the primaries have been moved back to August, leaving
plenty of time for a surprise entry.
Riverboat gambling won four-point approval in Natchez.
MISSOURI
H/2 -- DEM: Joan Horn (50%-$278);
GOP: Jack Buechner* (50%-$573).
H/3 -- DEM: Richard Gephardt* (57%-$1,413);
GOP: Malcolm Holekamp (43%-$66).
H/8 -- GOP: Bill Emerson* (57%-$577);
DEM: Russ Carnahan (43%-$186).
Buechner's stunning 48-vote loss can be traced to a sweet CATV
deal, a penchant for junkets, and reporting campaign loans from
people who denied making them.
McClure and Holekamp ran invisible challenges, but voters were
miffed at the prominent roles Coleman and Gephardt played pushing
through new taxes.
Positioning for a '92 gubernatorial run, St. Louis Mayor Vince
Schoemel (D) buried his flip to pro-choice by announcing it on
Election Day.
MONTANA
SEN -- DEM: Max Baucus* (70%-$2,886);
GOP: Lt. Gov. Alan Kolstad (30%-$676).
H/1 -- DEM: Pat Williams (61%-$462);
GOP: Brad Johnson (39%-$68).
Voters here surprised pundits in '88 by endorsing the Senate
challenge of everyman Conrad Burns, but had no such lightning for
Kolstad. The national rode out after finding the LG was out of his
depth.
Independent expenditures from Pat Robertson failed to sink Williams
for his leadership in arts funding.
NEBRASKA
SEN -- DEM: J. James Exon* (59%-$2,391);
GOP: ex-Cong. Hal Daub (41%-$1,293).
GOV -- DEM: Ben Nelson (50%-$1,335);
GOP: Kay Orr* (50%-$2,380).
H/2 -- DEM: Peter Hoagland* (58%-$842);
GOP: Ally Milder (42%-$551).
H/3 -- GOP: Hse. Skpr. Bill Barrett (51%-$497);
DEM: st. Sen. Sandra Scofield (49%-$324).
A heavy negative campaign focusing on Nelson's business practices
nearly brought the unpopular Orr back from the pale. Had all the TV
she had ordered made it to the air, Orr wouldn't be vacating.
The surprisingly strong Scofield is said to be in line for the
chief-of-staff post in the new administration.
Voters gave 12-point approval to shift school funding from
property to sales taxes.
NEVADA
GOV -- DEM: Bob Miller* (66%-$1,342);
GOP: Jim Gallaway (31%-$453).
By a firm 26-point margin, voters approved a measure to make
abortion rights laws difficult to repeal.
Pro-choice Sen. Sue Wagner (R) won a 10-point victory in the LG
race after barely surviving a campaign plane crash.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
SEN -- GOP: H/1 Cong. Bob Smith (67%-$1,228);
DEM: ex-US Sen. John Durkin (33%-$271).
GOV -- GOP: Judd Gregg* (63%-$1,104);
DEM: ex-st. Chair Joe Grandmaison (37%-$272).
H/1 -- GOP: Bill Zeliff (55%-$498);
DEM: Joe Keefe (45%-$281).
H/2 -- DEM: Dick Swett (53%-$340);
GOP: Chuck Douglas* (47%-$493).
The press loved Durkin's quotable outrageousness, but no political
money brokers ever took his effort seriously.
Gregg deflected concern about the regional recession by tying the
underfunded Grandmaison to taxes.
Douglas' mutable marital life--underscored at the optimum moment
by Nancy Sununu--made him fall victim to the carefully laid designs
of architect Swett, son-in-law of Cong. Tom Lantos (D-CA).
NEW JERSEY
SEN -- DEM: Bill Bradley* (51%-$12,543);
GOP: Utility Bd. Pres. Christine Whitman (49%-$543).
H/1 -- DEM: Rob Andrews (56%-$395);
GOP: Dan Mangini (44%-$42).
H/3 -- DEM: Frank Pallone* (51%-$486);
GOP: Paul Kapalko (49%-$92).
H/12 -- GOP: st. Sen. Dick Zimmer (67%-$967);
DEM: Marguerite Chandler (33%-$1,511).
H/13 -- GOP: Jim Saxton* (60%-$726);
DEM: John Adler (40%-$165)
FTF last summer: "Whitman's chances of succeeding Bradley in the
Senate? She's more likely to succeed him in the NBA." ...Patrick
Ewing, stand back.
The "Flog Florio" tax revolt nearly got the unsuspecting heads of
Pallone and Dwyer as well, and buried Marge "The Graduate" Chandler--
despite nearly $2 million spent and ads which put her at the head of
the lynch mob.
The State Senate is up in '91, so Dems better get a program
battened down now.
NEW MEXICO
GOV -- GOP: ex-Gov. Bruce King (54%-$672);
DEM: ex-st. Sen. Frank Bond (46%-$1,120).
H/1 -- GOP: Steve Schiff* (70%-$482);
DEM: Sec. of St. Rebecca Vigil-Giron (30%-$106).
Cowboy King is back in the saddle again for the third
nonconsecutive time.
Schiff should lead frosh orientation for the GOP. He blew an
elected statewide official off the board in his first re-elect,
despite having claimed the seat in a photo finish.
Schiff's '88 opponent, Tom Udall, won the AG's race 2-1.
NEW YORK
GOV -- DEM: Mario Cuomo* (53%-$NA);
GOP: Pierre Rinfret (22%-$NA);
CON: Herb London (21%-$NA).
H/3 -- DEM: Bob Mrazek* (53%-$732);
GOP: Robert Previdi (43%-$154).
H/5 -- GOP: Ray McGrath* (55%-$801);
DEM: Mark Epstein (41%-$221).
H/24 -- GOP: Gerald Solomon* (68%-$320);
DEM: Bill Lawrence (32%-$71).
COMP -- GOP: Ned Regan* (52%);
DEM: ex-NYC Cncl. Pres. Carol Bellamy (48%).
Budget woes clipped a dozen points off Cuomo's '86 mandate. The
Mario Scenario oculd well be swirling down the Dukakis Drain.
The defenders of the GOP majority in the state Senate pitched
their surprisingly effective campaign as a "referendum on Cuomo and
his budget mess," says a team consultant.
NORTH CAROLINA
SEN -- GOP: Jesse Helms* (53%-$15,364);
DEM: ex-Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt (47%-$5,761).
H/3 -- DEM: Martin Lancaster* (59%-$470);
GOP: Don Davis (41%-$55).
H/4 -- DEM: David Price* (58%-$614);
GOP: John Carrington (42%-$653).
H/5 -- DEM: Steve Neal* (60%-$580);
GOP: Ken Bell (40%-$132).
H/8 -- DEM: Bill Hefner* (55%-$676);
GOP: Ted Blanton (45%-$262).
H/11 -- GOP: ex-st. Rep. Charles Taylor (51%-$363);
DEM: Jamie Clarke* (49%-$385).
Much has been made of the 11th-hour "White Hands" Helms ad which
pushed the reverse-discrimination issue against Gantt; but the real
GOP clincher was another late spot which chronicled Gantt's $700 cash
investment in a TV license deal which netted him a quick $450,000. The
license had been garnered with a minority preference, then sold to a
white syndicate weeks later. Gantt tied to the cynical manipulation of
racial preferences for personal gain: a 30-second H-bomb. A kicker
declares Gantt was turned out as mayor of Charlotte because of the
incident, lending credence to the charge and making voters feel more
comfortable about rejecting him for the Senate.
Gov. Jim Martin and Charlotte Mayor Sue Myrick--considered GOP
moderates--each made effusive, fiercely partisan speeched in Helms'
behalf toward the close, flurrying roundhouse rights at the black
opposition. One wonders about the political winds down there.
OHIO
GOV -- GOP: ex-Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich (56%-$4,394);
DEM: Atty. Gen. Anthony Celebrezze (44%-$2,223).
H/1 -- DEM: Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken (51%-$558);
GOP: ex-Cincinnati Mayor J. Kenneth Blackwell (49%-$499).
H/7 -- GOP: st. Sen. David Hobson (62%-$327);
DEM: Jack Schira (38%-$73).
H/8 -- GOP: st. Sen. John Boehner (61%-$632);
DEM: Greg Jolivette (39%-$97).
Internal staff discord and a preoccupation with his abortion flip
kept Celebrezze stalled throughout the campaign. But Buckeyes like to
put their leaders through the purgatory of a major loss before
electing them to high office, and the Keating affair appears to have
put Sen. Glenn's seat up for grabs in '92.
The national GOP pulled out all the stops for black Reagan
protege Blackwell in the nominally Republican First, but voters were
comfortable keeping the moderate tradition of Luken's predecessor-dad.
Another family tradition continues here as Bob Taft III (R)
narrowly ousted populist Secretary of State Sherrod Brown, who
suffered from a drug-trade scandal in his office.
OKLAHOMA
GOV -- DEM: David Walters (64%-$2,303);
GOP: US Atty. Bill Price (36%-$1,394).
H/1 -- GOP: Jim Inhofe* (56%-$499);
DEM: Kurt Glassco (44%-$323).
Once considered damaged goods because of a 1986 campaign loan
scanal, Walters won by accommodating his fallen primary foes. Price's
unyielding hard-right agenda alienated GOPers aligned with Gov. Henry
Bellmon.
OREGON
SEN -- GOP: Mark Hatfield* (54%-$1,663);
DEM: Harry Lonsdale (46%-$1,156).
GOV -- DEM: Sec. of St. Barbara Roberts (46%-$1,931);
GOP: AG Dave Frohnmayer (39%-$3,366);
IND: Al Mobley (13%-$NA).
H/5 -- DEM: Mike Kopetski (55%-$683);
GOP: Denny Smith* (45%-$746).
The wake-up call served by Lonsdale's September surge come early
enough to save Hatfield.
Frontrunning Frohnmayer hit the skids as RTL activist Mobley began
siphoning pro-lifers off the GOP conservative coalition.
Abortion foes weren't strong enough to push over a parental consent
referendum, however.
PENNSYLVANIA
GOV -- DEM: Robert Casey* (68%-$5,501);
GOP: Aud. Gen. Barbara Hafer (32%-$1,248).
H/7 -- GOP: Curt Weldon* (65%-$534);
DEM: John Inneli (35%-$83).
H/8 -- DEM: Peter Kostmayer* (57%-$715);
GOP: Audrie Schaller (43%-$122).
H/18 -- GOP: Rick Santorum (51%-$162);
DEM: Doug Walgren* (49%-$563).
The massive win for pro-life Casey makes this the biggest abortion
battleground of any individual state.
Santorum's shocking win could be a blueprint for numerous
overthrows in '92: He painted Walgren as a detadched Capitol pol who
perpetuated his DC tenure with PAC fees and tax-funded mail.
The Pittsburgh area was hard on other incumbents, including ousted
state Sen. John Regoli (D), whose defeat gives the GOP a veto over
'91 redistricting.
RHODE ISLAND
SEN -- DEM: Claiborne Pell* (62%-$2,088);
GOP: H/2 Cong. Claudine Schneider (38%-$1,773).
GOV -- DEM: Bruce Sundlun (74%-$1,085);
GOP: Edward DiPrete* (26%-$1,416).
H/1 -- GOP: Ron Machtley* (55%-$811);
DEM: Scott Wolf (45%-$315).
H/2 -- DEM: st. Sen. John Reed (59%-$624);
GOP: Trudy Coxe (41%-$451).
Schneider could never convince voters that Pell had outlived his
usefulness.
Claudine clone Coxe was an even bet until it was revealed her
husband had performed campaign work on state computers.
SOUTH CAROLINA
GOV -- GOP: Carroll Campbell* (71%-$1,900);
DEM: st. Sen. Theo Mitchell (29%-$200).
H/3 -- DEM: Butler Derrick* (58%-$832);
GOP: Ray Haskett (42%-$61).
H/4 -- DEM: Liz Patterson* (61%-$405);
GOP: Hs. Min. Ldr. Terry Haskins (39%-$128).
Campbell and Sen. Strom Thurmond (R) vaporized their weak Demo
opponents at the top of the ticket, but the expected GOP tidal wave
never materialized down-ballot. Republicans actually lost ground in
both houses of the legislature. The lesson here and in Florida:
realignment will be a long time coming down South until the GOP sheds
its country club orientation.
SOUTH DAKOTA
SEN -- GOP: Larry Pressler* (52%-$2,227);
DEM: Ted Muenster (45%-$1,208).
GOV -- GOP: George Mickelson* (59%-$929);
DEM: ex-st. Sen. Bob Samuelson (41%-$127).
H/AL -- DEM: Tim Johnson* (68%-$1,208);
GOP: ex-st. Sen. Don Frankenfeld (32%-$175).
The papers here seem to take their cues on congressional affairs
from Beltway bigwigs. Consequently, a man whose only crime was to
serve South Dakotans before the designs of DC power brokers was
nearly destroyed by a communications blitz right out of "Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington."
TENNESSEE
GOV -- DEM: Ned Ray McWherter* (61%-$3,079);
GOP: st. Rep. Dwight Henry (39%-$137).
Henry's desultory effort--officially suspended for lack of funds
at one point--polled higher than the last three "serious" GOP stabs
at the Senate. McWherter was vulnerable, but the very loyal
"opposition" let him pass.
TEXAS
SEN -- GOP: Phil Gramm* (61%-$15,408);
DEM: st. Sen. Hugh Parmer (38%-$1,613).
GOV -- DEM: st. Treas. Ann Richards (51%-$12,383);
GOP: Clayton Williams (49%-$20,900).
H/1 -- DEM: Jim Chapman* (61%-$526);
GOP: Hamp Hodges (39%-$289).
H/2 -- DEM: Charles Wilson* (55%-$545);
GOP: Donna Peterson (45%-$95).
H/5 -- DEM: John Bryant* (61%-$1,262);
GOP: Jerry Rucker (39%-$390).
H/9 -- DEM: Jack Brooks* (58%-$1,160);
GOP: Beaumont Mayor Maury Meyers (42%-$413).
H/10 -- DEM: Jake Pickle* (67%-$539);
GOP: David Beilharz (33%-$244).
H/11 -- DEM: st. Sen. Chet Edwards (54%-$555);
GOP: st. Rep. Hugh Shine (46%-$685).
H/13 -- DEM: Bill Sarpalius* (56%-$596);
GOP: st. Rep. Dick Waterfield (44%-$549).
H/14 -- DEM: Greg Laughlin* (54%-$720);
GOP: Joe Dial (45%-$367).
LT. GOV -- DEM: Bob Bulloch (52%-$4,672);
GOP: Rob Mosbacher (45%-$4,665).
AG -- DEM: Dan Morales (52%-$2,182);
GOP: Buster Brown (45%-$1,541).
TREAS -- GOP: Kay Bailey Hutchison (50%-$1,263);
DEM: Nikki Van Hightower (47%-$461).
AG CMSR -- GOP: st. Rep. Rick Perry (49%-$1,319);
DEM: Jim Hightower* (47%-$941).
RR CMSR -- DEM: ex-Cong. Bob Krueger (56%-$1,205);
GOP: ex-Cong. Beau Boulter (44%-$616).
Claytie's handshake snub-cum-"liar" retort didn't really hurt him
with the voters (John Tower turned a similar incident to his advantage
in '78), but it shook the confidence of the greenhorn candidate and
his campaign, leading to a closing crescendo of gaffe-mania. Top
botch: bragging about not paying taxes for 1986.
$10 million for an LG race? Who says consultant Valhalla is in
California?
"Mr. Populism" Jim Hightower is looking for work at a time when his
message has become party mantra, a victim of his 19th century campaign
technique.
UTAH
H/1 -- GOP: Jim Hansen* (54%-$240);
DEM: Kenley Brunsdale (46%-$108).
H/2 -- DEM: Wayne Owens* (59%-$871);
GOP: ex-st. Rep. Genevieve Atwood (41%-$248).
H/3 -- DEM: Bill Orton (62%-$64);
GOP: ex-st. Sen. Karl Snow (38%-$207).
We didn't even track the Third District; neither did Charlie Cook
or any other published pundit. Yet Orton's supposedly superfluous
candidacy scored a landslide in a constituency that went for Reagan by
55 points. Some primary bad blood and a questionable business deal may
have hurt Snow, but an ad the GOP placed in the district's largest
paper the Sunday before the election is said to have done him in. It
displayed two photos headed "Meet the Candidates' Families." Bachelor
Orton was pictured alone.
The combined Demo congressional vote here was 55 percent. Toto, I
don't think we're in Utah any more.
VERMONT
GOV -- GOP: ex-Gov. Dick Snelling (52%-$466);
DEM: ex-st. Sen. Peter Welch (46%-$239).
H/AL -- IND: ex-Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders (56%-$466);
GOP: Peter Smith* (40%-$533);
DEM: Dolores Sandoval (3%-$11).
This is an unlikely venue for Congress' only avowed socialist, and
the coalition that elected Sanders is even less plausible. His
greatest strength came from the conservative, traditionally Republican
rural areas, where anti-Establishment fervor runs high and Smith's
crusade against assault rifles looked unholy.
VIRGINIA
H/1 -- GOP: Herb Bateman* (51%-$403);
DEM: Andy Fox (49%-$53).
H/7 -- GOP: French Slaughter* (58%-$638);
DEM: David Smith (42%-$300).
H/8 -- DEM: Alexandria Mayor James Moran (52%-$701);
GOP: Stan Parris* (45%-$838).
H/10 -- GOP: Frank Wolf* (62%-$510);
DEM: Mac Canter (34%-$72);
IND: Lyndon LaRouche (1%-$356).
TV journalism may be a prime breeding ground for political
leadership of tomorrow. Fox couldn't pay for TV exposure, but had
amassed plenty of it as a TV reporter.
Joe Trippi's bludgeoning media style was too brutal in most races,
but it probably elected Moran. A spot depicting helpless-looking
women and the Statue of Liberty in jail cells dramatized Parris'
out-of-sync abortion views.
WASHINGTON
H/1 -- GOP: John Miller* (51%-$785);
DEM: King Co. Cnclwmn. Cynthia Sullivan (49%-$280).
H/3 -- DEM: Jolene Unsoeld* (54%-$1,074);
GOP: ex-st. Rep. Bob Williams (46%-$592).
The state's new Congressional District may be carved to Sullivan's
liking.
WEST VIRGINIA
H/2 -- DEM: Harley Staggers, Jr.* (55%-$374);
GOP: Oliver Luck (45%-$251).
H/4 -- DEM: Nick Rahall* (52%-$898);
GOP: Marianne Brewster (48%-$39).
Nicky Joe's legendary drinking, gambling, and hazardous driving
nearly apprehended him. Embarrassed legislators may now feel they have
a mandate to erase his constituency in next year's redistricting.
WISCONSIN
GOV -- GOP: Tommy Thompson* (58%-$3,030);
DEM: Hse. Spkr. Tom Loftus (42%-$1,137).
H/2 -- GOP: Scott Klug (53%-$117);
DEM: Bob Kastenmeier* (47%-$300).
H/8 -- GOP: Toby Roth (54%-$543);
DEM: st. Sen. Jerry Van Sistine (46%-$247).
As did Andy Fox in Virginia, Klug showed that voters may prefer a
trusted face from daily newscasts over an incumbent squirrled away in
DC.
WYOMING
GOV -- DEM: Mike Sullivan* (65%-$138);
GOP: Mary Meade (35%-$306).
H/AL -- GOP: Craig Thomas* (55%-$349);
DEM: Pete Maxfield (45%-$150).
A 28-point margin for Sen. Al Simpson (R) was none too impressive
for this heavily Republican state. His opponent was a student who
barely raised her qualifying fee, but pro-life resentment swelled her
vote.