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Are Democrats in trouble in Vermont politics?
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Mar 10, 2006 11:44am |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Friday, March 10, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | She had the endorsements of the state's political elite, outspent her opponents by nearly 8 to 1 and was widely expected to win an election in which Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean cast his first in-person vote in years.
So why did Hinda Miller — an entrepreneur who founded JogBra, a popular state senator and capable grassroots campaigner — lose her race for mayor of Vermont's largest city to a Progressive who got in the race months later and quipped at one time that he was running for Burlington's top job because someone from his party had to?
And, more importantly, what does Miller's loss — an eight-point shellacking in which she failed to carry even one of the city's seven wards — mean for Democrats as they head into elections all over Vermont?
Political observers, candidates and party operatives of all three parties were scratching their heads Wednesday to explain how Robert Kiss, a Progressive state representative who only reluctantly carried his party's banner in the mayoral race, pumped out a decisive victory. |
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