Jesse Helms' Senate seat is one of 33 that are at stake this year, 19 held by Republicans and 14 by Democrats. To capture control, which they lost in the Republican onslaught of 1980, the Democrats need a net gain of six seats. Notable races where the rhetoric has already heated up:
TEXAS. Last August, when Republican John Tower announced he was retiring from the Senate, the news caught the party off guard. No one had been groomed to succeed the spunky, conservative 23-year Senate veteran. Congressman Phil Gramm, a former Democratic "boll weevil"...
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