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Conservatives Plan $700,000 Drive To Oust 5 Democrats From Senate

New York Times (archives), Warren Weaver, Jr., Aug 17, 1979

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/17/...00-drive-to-oust-5-democrats-from-senate.html

' . . . The National Conservative Political Action Committee [NCPAC] announced that it would conduct television, radio and print campaigns in the next four months in an effort to unseat Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Alan Cranston of California, John C. Culver of Iowa and George McGovern of South Dakota.

'The committee plans to spend about $700,000 on the brief, intensive effort to increase the negative poll ratings of the Democrats, attacking them on a series of issues and, in effect, softening them up for a conservative Republican opponent in 1980. . . '

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' . . . “We believe that we can turn around a large percentage of the people in these states — 10, 15 or 20 — by convincing them that their Senator is doing a rotten job,” John T. Dolan, chairman of the conservative committee, said at a news conference. He later called the five Democrats “people who are basically disloyal to their constituents,” voting contrary to their asserted philosophy. . . '
So, this major conservative PAC is basically trying to make George one of their whipping boys.

How can he successfully defend himself and continue to push his own issues? That is, play offense as well, and at the time of the '79 energy crisis and the '80 recession, this has to include economic issues.
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