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With Labor Day upon us, the political battles of the fall get hot. Some good news for the GOP in the Senate: Victors of Rep. Wyche Fowler over Hamilton Jordan in Aug. 12 Georgia Democratic primary makes GOP Sen. Mack Mattinghly the favorite in November. says political analyst Stuart Rothenberg Mattinghly should be able “to put together a coalition of suburban Republicans and conservative rural . . . Democrats.” says Rothenberg, to offset Fowler’s strength in Atlanta. Preprimary polls showed Mattingly running twenty points ahead of Fowler, but only eight ahead of Jordan. … In Utah, Sen. Jake Garn looks forward to easy race against Craig Oliver, who won Aug. 20 primary. Garn led 75 per cent to 17 per cent in preprimary polls. … In one of most interesting races ideologically—Republican Rep. Ken Kramer (ACU: 100) v. Democratic Rep. Tim Wirth (ACU: 0), for Gary Hart’s seat—Kramer leads by seven points according to one poll, by one point according to another. . . . Successful answers to a Baltimore TV station’s public-affairs poll has made former White House aide Linda Chavez the favorite in Maryland GOP primary for Charles Mathias’s seat. Miss Chavez got 80 per cent score, against 30 per cent for her probable Democratic opponent, Rep. Barbara Mikulski. In same quiz George Haley (Alex Haley’s brother), whose campaign was going nowhere, identified Oliver Tambo, head of South African ANC, as “Sambo.” … In New York, Sen. Alfonse D’Amato is feeling safe. In pre-primary polls he runs roughly fifty points ahead of both liberal Democrat Mark Green and conservative Democrat John Dyson. And he’ll get no trouble from Mayor Ed Koch, who said just the other day: “When I need to get something done that requires a terrier who will just throw himself into it, D’Amato will immolate himself if required.” (It’s the thought that counts!) . . . Incidentally, in NewYork, former gubernatorial candidate and conservative activist Lewis Lehrman is contemplating senatorial race in 1988 against Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Lehrman says he’ll make up his mind by next spring.

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With Labor Day upon us, the political battles of the fall get hot. Some good news for the GOP in the Senate: Victors of Rep. Wyche Fowler over Hamilton Jordan in Aug. 12 Georgia Democratic primary makes GOP Sen. Mack Mattinghly the favorite in November. says political analyst Stuart Rothenberg Mattinghly should be able “to put together a coalition of suburban Republicans and conservative rural . . . Democrats.” says Rothenberg, to offset Fowler’s strength in Atlanta. Preprimary polls showed Mattingly running twenty points ahead of Fowler, but only eight ahead of Jordan. … In Utah, Sen. Jake Garn looks forward to easy race against Craig Oliver, who won Aug. 20 primary. Garn led 75 per cent to 17 per cent in preprimary polls. … In one of most interesting races ideologically—Republican Rep. Ken Kramer (ACU: 100) v. Democratic Rep. Tim Wirth (ACU: 0), for Gary Hart’s seat—Kramer leads by seven points according to one poll, by one point according to another. . . . Successful answers to a Baltimore TV station’s public-affairs poll has made former White House aide Linda Chavez the favorite in Maryland GOP primary for Charles Mathias’s seat. Miss Chavez got 80 per cent score, against 30 per cent for her probable Democratic opponent, Rep. Barbara Mikulski. In same quiz George Haley (Alex Haley’s brother), whose campaign was going nowhere, identified Oliver Tambo, head of South African ANC, as “Sambo.” … In New York, Sen. Alfonse D’Amato is feeling safe. In pre-primary polls he runs roughly fifty points ahead of both liberal Democrat Mark Green and conservative Democrat John Dyson. And he’ll get no trouble from Mayor Ed Koch, who said just the other day: “When I need to get something done that requires a terrier who will just throw himself into it, D’Amato will immolate himself if required.” (It’s the thought that counts!) . . . Incidentally, in NewYork, former gubernatorial candidate and conservative activist Lewis Lehrman is contemplating senatorial race in 1988 against Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Lehrman says he’ll make up his mind by next spring.

“She’s an ideal patient—never asks for a second opinion.”