1994 United States Senate election in West Virginia

Candidates

Democratic

• Robert Byrd, incumbent U.S. Senator

Republican

• Stanley L. Klos, author, historian, and businessman

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. 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. 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 West Virginia. 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 Byrd.

Results

References

References

1. "Our Campaigns - WV US Senate Race - Nov 08, 1994".
2. [http://election.nationaljournal.com/2006/senate/wv.htm US Senate 1994] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-10-28 Byrd (D) versus Klos (R))
3. [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5R_T37ucvds/UYB5yWm1OUI/AAAAAAAAFYw/GN6ib79jLdo/s640/byrd.jpg Robert C. Byrd Letter to Stanley L. Klos] October 31, 1997
4. (9 November 1994). "THE 1994 ELECTIONS: THE SENATE; Who Won Where - the Races for the U.S. Senate". The New York Times.