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How go the races with just three weeks until Election Day? First poll in Con-necticut (Hartford. Times) shows Democrat Joseph Duffey, the peace-ADA candidate, slightly ahead. Duffey got 29 per cent, Republican Lowell Weicker, 25 per cent, independent Tom Dodd, 19 per cent, with 27 per cent undecided. . . . Don’t believe the poll, say columnists Evans and Novak whose own soundings show Duffey not winning over bluecollar voters he must get. . . . In Calinia, Reagan pulling way from Unruh. He went up three points in last poll while Unruh dropped back nine points. Some pros are predicting Reagan may beat Unruh by over one million votes. . . . He’s been endorsed by Los Angeles Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle, both of which were against four years ago. . . . Could pull George Murphy in with him, but that race (Murphy v. Tunney) is still neck and neck. . . . Murphy, and Ralph Smith of Illinois, got largest donations from Sen. John Tower’s senatorial campaign committee because, explained Tower, the Republican Party thinks their seats can be saved, given the funds. . . . Also neck and neck, the race between Congressman Richard Roudebush and Senator Vance Hartke in Indiana, with Hartke possibly a fraction ahead. Roudebush running hard campaign, right down the conservative line after wishy-washy start. . . . Big guns moving into New York. Sen. McGovern was there last week campaigning for Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Ottinger, Eugene McCarthy also has spoken for both Ottinger and Goldberg. . . . According to Washington Post, Sen. Charles Percy made an “anxious call” to Charles Goodell the day after Agnew appeared at a Buckley fund-raising lunch in New York asking if there was anything he could do to help. Percy (in Illinois, conservatives have already formed a Committee to Chuck Chuck), and other outstanding Republican liberals in the Senate, Edward Brooke, Mark Hatfield, Charles Mathias, are closing ranks behind Goodell.

Other congressional races of interest: Massachusetts, where Howard Phillips, one of the original founders of YAF, is running against Democratic Rep. Michael Harrington. . . . West Virginia, where conservative radio newsman Ken Doll is running a tough campaign against Rep. Robert Mollohan, the Democratic union candidate. . . . California, where James Kuhn has taken on another Democrat with strong labor support, Rep. Lionel van Deerlin. Kuhn, is given outside chance of defeating van Deerlin if Reagan runs as strongly as it now seems he will.

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How go the races with just three weeks until Election Day? First poll in Con-necticut (Hartford. Times) shows Democrat Joseph Duffey, the peace-ADA candidate, slightly ahead. Duffey got 29 per cent, Republican Lowell Weicker, 25 per cent, independent Tom Dodd, 19 per cent, with 27 per cent undecided. . . . Don’t believe the poll, say columnists Evans and Novak whose own soundings show Duffey not winning over bluecollar voters he must get. . . . In Calinia, Reagan pulling way from Unruh. He went up three points in last poll while Unruh dropped back nine points. Some pros are predicting Reagan may beat Unruh by over one million votes. . . . He’s been endorsed by Los Angeles Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle, both of which were against four years ago. . . . Could pull George Murphy in with him, but that race (Murphy v. Tunney) is still neck and neck. . . . Murphy, and Ralph Smith of Illinois, got largest donations from Sen. John Tower’s senatorial campaign committee because, explained Tower, the Republican Party thinks their seats can be saved, given the funds. . . . Also neck and neck, the race between Congressman Richard Roudebush and Senator Vance Hartke in Indiana, with Hartke possibly a fraction ahead. Roudebush running hard campaign, right down the conservative line after wishy-washy start. . . . Big guns moving into New York. Sen. McGovern was there last week campaigning for Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Ottinger, Eugene McCarthy also has spoken for both Ottinger and Goldberg. . . . According to Washington Post, Sen. Charles Percy made an “anxious call” to Charles Goodell the day after Agnew appeared at a Buckley fund-raising lunch in New York asking if there was anything he could do to help. Percy (in Illinois, conservatives have already formed a Committee to Chuck Chuck), and other outstanding Republican liberals in the Senate, Edward Brooke, Mark Hatfield, Charles Mathias, are closing ranks behind Goodell.

Other congressional races of interest: Massachusetts, where Howard Phillips, one of the original founders of YAF, is running against Democratic Rep. Michael Harrington. . . . West Virginia, where conservative radio newsman Ken Doll is running a tough campaign against Rep. Robert Mollohan, the Democratic union candidate. . . . California, where James Kuhn has taken on another Democrat with strong labor support, Rep. Lionel van Deerlin. Kuhn, is given outside chance of defeating van Deerlin if Reagan runs as strongly as it now seems he will.