On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, JDG wrote:
> I don't know the answer to that, other the anecdotally. Certainlly,
> exit polls have been wrong for lower-level races in the past, Sen Bob
> Smith of NH's re-election in 1996 or 98 being a recent example.
1996.
Gregg was the one re-elected in 1998. :)
Gregg took Rudman's seat after Rudman decided not to seek a third term in
1992.
The first election I voted in had Rudman trying for re-election against
Peabody, who was a former governor of Massachusetts but who had moved to
NH, I guess partly to try to get a Democrat elected to something there.
Both came to my high school on separate occasions to speak with a select
group of students, of which I was a member. Peabody ducked answering
specific question. Rudman was willing to go into great detail to clarify
just where he was coming from on specific issues. I came to the
conclusion that Rudman was better representative of *me*, so I voted for
him.
Of course, Peabody went to my church and lived in my town and was hanging
around at the campaign limit, and greeted me heartily as I came out from
having cast my ballot. I didn't know what to say, except that I needed to
get to class (which was true enough, but I had 5 minutes' wiggle room
right then), and I walked off as rapidly as I could.
Peabody died of cancer less than 6 years later.
Julia
oh, and there was the joke that there were 3 towns in Massachusetts named
after him -- Endicott, Peabody and Marblehead
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