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Moderate Taft

Ohio's thoughtful and earnest
moderate, Robert Taft, had to defeat
the thorough-going liberal
Howard Metzenbaum,who would
have been a fit successor to retiring
Sen. Stephen Young.

Connecticut's bright moderate
Republican Lowell Weicker beat
the most appealing clergyman peace
candidate, Joseph Duffey.

Vermont's able moderate Winston
Prouty defeated his state's first
Democratic governor, the creative
and outspoken Philip Hoff.

And Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly
elected twice-cheat Edward
Kennedy, instead of Josiah
Spaulding, whose superlative background
and uncompromised liberalism
would have ranked him with
Hugh Scott as a leader of Republican
Senate progressives.