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December 30th, 2008, 06:01 PM
ON DEADLINE: Appointive seats not best game around (AP via Yahoo! News)
Appointed senators have gone on to become election-winning party leaders, powerful committee chairmen, a vice president and presidential nominee. But others who got to the Senate by appointment have been short-timers, losing election bids far more often than senators who were elected to their seats in the first place.
More... (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/parachute/SIG=12d3cpe07/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_ca/senate_unpopular_appointments_1)
by Yahoo Parachute News
Appointed senators have gone on to become election-winning party leaders, powerful committee chairmen, a vice president and presidential nominee. But others who got to the Senate by appointment have been short-timers, losing election bids far more often than senators who were elected to their seats in the first place.
More... (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/parachute/SIG=12d3cpe07/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_ca/senate_unpopular_appointments_1)
by Yahoo Parachute News