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By SEN. EUGENE McCARTHY
Rappahannock New* Contributing Writer
The World Series is over and so are the 1986 Congressional elections. The two events had much in common. Both lasted too long. The baseball play-offs were more interesting than was the Series. Most of the primary contests were more exciting than was the general election.
There were complaints of foul play, of scuffing the baseball and of using illegal bats in the one case; of misleading advertising and dirty tricks in the other. Most of the hits in the series, as I recall, were ground balls through the pitcher’s box and on over second base. The issues in the Congressional elections ranged from just right or left of second base.
The differences between winners and losers in both events were minimal. One could fairly come close to hoping that both sides could lose. Obviously the salaries of baseball players are too high for their abilities.
Now we may expect that every major newspaper will have an editorial on the costs of campaigns and every hard-pressed columnist will devote one or two columns to the same topic.
Proposals to limit campaign expenditures undoubtedly will be urged, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that such limitations are unconstitutional.
Common Cause may well return with its 1974 proposal that campaign expenditures in primaries and in general elections be limited to approximately 10 cents and 15 cents per eligible voter, evidently on the theory that what the country needs is a “good 15 cent voter.” We may expect recommendations that government financing of elections be provided for Congressional elections as it has been for Presidential elections, even though on the record
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