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GOP Optimistic On Congressional Races In 1980
Washington analysts see Democrats firm in control of both chambers, but Republicans, led by Rhodes and Baker, push for gains. With 24 of 34 Senate seats open, GOP targets key incumbents while arguing inflation and economic woes favor an opposition wave. Open seats total five. House has 273 Democrats, 159 Republicans with three vacancies.
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Washington
John Rhodes
House
Thomas P. O’neill Jr
Howard Baker
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Rhodes
Baker
Congress
White House
Sen
Wendell Ford
D-Ky
Ford
Democratic Senate Campaign Committee
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Guy Vander Jagt
R-Mich
House Republican Campaign Committee
Vander Jagt
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Virginia
Senate Campaign Committee
Larry McCarthy
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Frank Church
Idaho
George McGovern
South Dakota
John Culver
Iowa
Birch Bayh
Indiana
John Durkin
New Hampshire
Gary Hart
Colorado
Warren Magnuson
Daniel Inouye
Dale Bumpers
McCarthy
Gravel
GOP
Church
McGovern
Richard Schweiker
Pennsylvania
Henry Bellman
Oklahoma
Milton Young
R-N.d
Adlai Stevenson
D-Ill
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Daniel Flood
David C