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Article: The toughest fight: Sen. John Sununu's travails in the Granite State.(CONGRESS)
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- National Review
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- August 18, 2008
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DEMOCRATS have a chance this fall to build a majority in the Senate that is effectively filibuster-proof. To do it, they will have to defeat John Sununu, a Republican senator from New Hampshire. Pollster.com's average of polls has Sununu eleven points below his opponent, former governor Jeanne Shaheen. No other Republican incumbent is in worse shape: not Ted Stevens of Alaska, who is mired in scandal; not Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who was appointed to the Senate a few months ago to fill a vacancy. If Democrats cannot beat Sununu, they are unlikely to achieve their goal.
The senator has been in tight spots before. In 1996, he won his party's nomination for a ...