A zestful examination of the midterm election, with a reminder that in the South,

as Governor Alexander puts it, "voting patterns, wildly enough, still go back to the Civil War." A good deal of the hour is spent discussing PACs, which were born of early-Seventies attempts at election reform and which have had the opposite of the intended effect, "atomizing the political climate," as Mr. Heard puts it, and "making] it even more difficult than before for the Congress to act coherently and with what we aspire to, a large view of the general interest." Governor Alexander's solution: "The only law we need [on political contributions] is one which prescribes disclosure of every contribution, and let the people then make a judgment."