In both Mississippi and New Hampshire, Democrats thought they had a good chance to knock off incumbent Republican Senators in 1984. But two popular challengers are finding the going a great deal harder than they had expected.
Visions of the New South
With his broad shoulders, silver hair and deep, drawling voice, Thad Cochran seems a paragon of the old-fashioned Southern politician. He is not. As the first Republican since Reconstruction to win a Senate seat from Mississippi, Cochran, 46, personifies the changing face of the Deep South. A boosterish supporter of Reaganomics,...
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