Bob Dornan, who had once burned Jane Fonda in effigy; Harrison “Jack” Schmitt won New Mexico’s Senate seat after promising to privatize Social Security. None received much coverage—not even the colorful linguist S. I. Hayakawa (a Japanese American, he defended the wartime internment of Japanese citizens, and had become a right-wing hero fighting student antiwar activists in the 1960s as president of San Francisco State University), even though the new senator-elect would be representing
