They realized “there were some conservatives who probably might have liked Mr. Hatch if they had known who he was.” But none did. Probably because they got their news from the New York Times. Orrin Hatch had just been elected to the Senate from Utah and would go on to exert more influence on the course of American politics than anyone else elected in 1976 except—possibly—Jimmy Carter. But in the pages of the Newspaper of Record, a column making fun of his name was the most in-depth treatment he got. The election
