National Conservative Political Action Committee. “It’s the dirtiest campaign I’ve been involved in,” complained one of the targets of their Senate hit list, George McGovern. Even his opponent Jim Abdnor said he wished he had never heard of NCPAC—though he also claimed, rather dubiously, “I wasn’t aware this was going on.” Another target, Frank Church, also called it the dirtiest campaign he’d experienced. His race against Steve Symms was tied—but the days when he dreamed of restoring Idaho’s progressive populist heritage were but a memory. A visiting Eastern reporter stopped into a store to
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