FOR THE RECORD

It wasn’t ladies’ night. That Geraldine Ferraro was shot down in flames did not come as any surprise, but it was pretty much a clean sweep of other women candidates in big races. Only three made it: Democrat Madeleine Kunin in a squeaker, to become governor of Vermont; Republican challenger Helen Delich Bentley, who took out a big one, 11-term Democratic Rep. Clarence Long of Md.; and incumbent Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kan., who had to have gone into the race as the most relaxed politician in America. Her last polls showed her 65 per cent ahead of her opponent. . . . But the nine other women who ran for the Senate all lost, as did Republicans Elise du Pont, wife of Delaware’s Gov. Pierre du Pont, running for the House, and Judy Petty in House race in Arkansas. . . . In N.H. liberal activist Dudley Dudley (usually a behind-the-scenes political practitioner) was herself a candidate this time. She lost her House race to Robert C. Smith, or, as Peter Jennings put it: “Dudley Dudley lost lost.” . . . Early on in the campaign, when a student told Mrs. Ferraro he didn’t know much about the arms race because he was “busy with my homework,” she snapped at him: “Then you should register as a Republican.” He did. Exit polls show 58 per cent of young voters went for Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

Best-kept secret of the race: the Nov. 1 statement by Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), urging blacks to. abandon Walter Mondale’s sinking ship and vote for Reagan. Said Innis: “The successful desegregation of the Republican Party can be one of the most important and healthy political developments for the black community and for the country at large.” CORE director Cyril Boynes confirmed that Innis was speaking for CORE’S board. Incidentally, only notice NR found of this was three-paragraph AP story on p. 38 of New York Times, Sunday, Nov. 4. . . . Reagan also got the heavyweight black vote: endorsements from Muhammad Ali, Floyd Patterson, and Joe Frazier. … In California, Eldridge Cleaver commented as he endorsed Reagan that “the Democratic Party [has] harnessed black people to the federal budget and addicted us to welfare, and left us in the lurch.” . . . Despite which, exit polls show Mondale getting 90 per cent of black vote, while Reagan swept Hispanics (56 per cent), Catholics (55 per cent), blue-collars (53 per cent), women (57 per cent).

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It wasn’t ladies’ night. That Geraldine Ferraro was shot down in flames did not come as any surprise, but it was pretty much a clean sweep of other women candidates in big races. Only three made it: Democrat Madeleine Kunin in a squeaker, to become governor of Vermont; Republican challenger Helen Delich Bentley, who took out a big one, 11-term Democratic Rep. Clarence Long of Md.; and incumbent Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kan., who had to have gone into the race as the most relaxed politician in America. Her last polls showed her 65 per cent ahead of her opponent. . . . But the nine other women who ran for the Senate all lost, as did Republicans Elise du Pont, wife of Delaware’s Gov. Pierre du Pont, running for the House, and Judy Petty in House race in Arkansas. . . . In N.H. liberal activist Dudley Dudley (usually a behind-the-scenes political practitioner) was herself a candidate this time. She lost her House race to Robert C. Smith, or, as Peter Jennings put it: “Dudley Dudley lost lost.” . . . Early on in the campaign, when a student told Mrs. Ferraro he didn’t know much about the arms race because he was “busy with my homework,” she snapped at him: “Then you should register as a Republican.” He did. Exit polls show 58 per cent of young voters went for Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

Best-kept secret of the race: the Nov. 1 statement by Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), urging blacks to. abandon Walter Mondale’s sinking ship and vote for Reagan. Said Innis: “The successful desegregation of the Republican Party can be one of the most important and healthy political developments for the black community and for the country at large.” CORE director Cyril Boynes confirmed that Innis was speaking for CORE’S board. Incidentally, only notice NR found of this was three-paragraph AP story on p. 38 of New York Times, Sunday, Nov. 4. . . . Reagan also got the heavyweight black vote: endorsements from Muhammad Ali, Floyd Patterson, and Joe Frazier. … In California, Eldridge Cleaver commented as he endorsed Reagan that “the Democratic Party [has] harnessed black people to the federal budget and addicted us to welfare, and left us in the lurch.” . . . Despite which, exit polls show Mondale getting 90 per cent of black vote, while Reagan swept Hispanics (56 per cent), Catholics (55 per cent), blue-collars (53 per cent), women (57 per cent).