United States Senate election in West Virginia, 1994
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The 1994 United States Senate election in West Virginia took place on November 7, 1994. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Robert Byrd won re-election to a seventh term. He won every county and congressional district in the state.[1]
Candidates
Democratic
Republican
Campaign
Klos campaigned as a "sacrificial lamb" against Robert C. Byrd participating in the Republican U.S. Senatorial Committee’s strategy to re-capture a majority in the United States Senate in 1994. Byrd spent $1,550,354 to Klos' $267,165.[2] Additionally the Democratic Party invested over $1 million in that State's U.S. Senatorial Campaign to the Republican Party's $15,000. The GOP captured a majority in the U.S. Senate. The highlights of the campaign included the hiring of an actor to play Robert C. Byrd who toured in staged Statewide Debates when the incumbent refused Klos's invitation for a series of formal Senatorial Debates. The campaign also organized successful demonstrations against the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Health Care Bus as it traveled through West Virginia in the summer of 1994. Senator Byrd, while the bill was being debated on the Senate floor rose suggesting the brakes be put on approving National Health Care measure while the bus was completing its tour in WV. To Klos's credit, the campaign did not implement the "Death by a Thousand Cuts" plan proposed by strategists which was later acknowledged in speeches given and letters written by U.S. Senator Byrd.[3]
Results
References
- ↑ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3456
- ↑ US Senate 1994 Byrd (D) versus Klos (R)
- ↑ Robert C. Byrd Letter to Stanley L. Klos October 31, 1997
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/09/us/the-1994-elections-the-senate-who-won-where-the-races-for-the-us-senate.html
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| Electoral history |
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| Books |
- The Senate, 1789–1989 series
- Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitutionalism
- Losing America: Confronting A Reckless and Arrogant Presidency
- We Stand Passively Mute: Senator Robert C. Byrd's Iraq Speeches
- Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields
- Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for our Next Leader
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