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Would the press have been invited along at Normandy if it had taken the view that the Roosevelt Administration was being hysterical about Hitler?

Aswegoto press, not all the election results are in. But in one race, out in Washington State, that may be a good barometer for 1984, the reading is fair weather ahead. Republican Dan Evans beat liberal Democratic Representative Mike Lowry in the contest for Henry Jackson’s seat, a race Democrats had called a “referendum on Reagan policies.” An added bonus: the Republican edge in the Senate is now 55 to 45, which means that the Democrats will have to take one more seat than they had figured on in 1984 to gain control of the Senate. . . . Down south, Kathryn McDonald, widow of Representative Larry McDonald, lost the runoff for her husband’s seat to fellow Democrat state legislator George Darden. . . . Democratic Attorney General Bill Allain, accused of homosexuality, beat Leon Bramlett for the Mississippi governorship. . . . Martha Layne Collins struck out the Republican candidate, former baseball pitcher Jim Bunning, in the Kentucky gubernatorial match. … In the Middle West, three Republicans, William Hudnut, Donna Owens, and Dana Rinehart, were elected mayors, respectively, of Indianapolis, Toledo, and Columbus. . . . Ohioans defeated two tax-cut measures supported by Democratic Governor Richard Celeste. . . . Philadelphia got its first black mayor, Wilson Goode, winner in a three-way race. . . . Tired of pitted roads and suspect bridges, New Yorkers passed a $1.25-billion transportation bond issue. . . . And finally, from Rotterdam, New York, comes this mordant note: Democrat John Kirvin, who died during a TV debate with his opponent for town supervisor, Rodney Bakos, beat Bakos in the election, 6,388 to 4,780. Talk about your tombstone vote . . .

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Would the press have been invited along at Normandy if it had taken the view that the Roosevelt Administration was being hysterical about Hitler?

Aswegoto press, not all the election results are in. But in one race, out in Washington State, that may be a good barometer for 1984, the reading is fair weather ahead. Republican Dan Evans beat liberal Democratic Representative Mike Lowry in the contest for Henry Jackson’s seat, a race Democrats had called a “referendum on Reagan policies.” An added bonus: the Republican edge in the Senate is now 55 to 45, which means that the Democrats will have to take one more seat than they had figured on in 1984 to gain control of the Senate. . . . Down south, Kathryn McDonald, widow of Representative Larry McDonald, lost the runoff for her husband’s seat to fellow Democrat state legislator George Darden. . . . Democratic Attorney General Bill Allain, accused of homosexuality, beat Leon Bramlett for the Mississippi governorship. . . . Martha Layne Collins struck out the Republican candidate, former baseball pitcher Jim Bunning, in the Kentucky gubernatorial match. … In the Middle West, three Republicans, William Hudnut, Donna Owens, and Dana Rinehart, were elected mayors, respectively, of Indianapolis, Toledo, and Columbus. . . . Ohioans defeated two tax-cut measures supported by Democratic Governor Richard Celeste. . . . Philadelphia got its first black mayor, Wilson Goode, winner in a three-way race. . . . Tired of pitted roads and suspect bridges, New Yorkers passed a $1.25-billion transportation bond issue. . . . And finally, from Rotterdam, New York, comes this mordant note: Democrat John Kirvin, who died during a TV debate with his opponent for town supervisor, Rodney Bakos, beat Bakos in the election, 6,388 to 4,780. Talk about your tombstone vote . . .