Whoops, forgot to answer the latter part. I did not expect Racine to win, actually, in ‘02. I did think Douglas would pick it up for us, and he did. The drastic decline of our numbers in the State Senate was pretty surprising, though.
Yeah, the Civil Unions issues was one that propelled us to more seats, but there was another burning issue at the time, I remember the novelist John Irving getting all up in arms about it, Act 60.
At first Douglas looked poised to win but I think his poll numbers tanked near the end. I thought the indie would cost him a victory.
“Act 60.”
Looked it up. Education funding, that was a huge local issue in New Hampshire as well with the courts saying the way they did it was ‘unconstitutional’ just like what happened in Vermont.
Those states are almost like twins. Vermont is the stutty one with the eyebrow piercings, bad influence on it’s sister state.