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Friday, December 10, 2004
Bonus Trivia of the Day
This from CQ Today Midday Update (free email service):
Leave it to Republicans to lose to dead men. John Ashcroft couldn't beat a dead Mel Carnahan, and evidently Young couldn't beat a dead Dem either.
Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, has lost only one election --his first, in 1972. His opponent, freshman Democratic Rep. Nick Begich, disappeared without a trace along with House Majority Leader Hale BoggsLink.
during an October airplane flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Begich still beat Young by almost 12,000 votes. In 1973 Young won a special election for the seat.
Leave it to Republicans to lose to dead men. John Ashcroft couldn't beat a dead Mel Carnahan, and evidently Young couldn't beat a dead Dem either.
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