Raye's wife once worked for Emily's List and he is rabidly proabortion as well as a panty waste Republican: career water carrier for RINO's in Maine; never held a job in the private sector in his adult life.
As for Bradley, I am still puzzled. A draft dodger, he has to his credit earning a sociology degree from Tufts (1971 to 1974), while other young men his age were fighting and dying in Vietnam. Had time to learn rock climbing but no time to serve in uniform.
Bradley went home to the lakes region and worked in his family hardware store. He was a democrat until 1989; It would be interesting to see if he voted for Mondale, Hart or Jackson.
Now, where he stands on the death penalty, gay marriage, women in combat, drafting women into the military, the flag ammendment, etc. etc. it still unknow.
That he was elected still befuddles me; a hardware store owner who likes to climb rocks.
There is something definitely to be said for run-offs. Raye and Bradley both won because of a bad split of too many Conservatives in their respective primaries, otherwise our nominees would be pro-lifer John Stephen in NH and slightly-more-moderate Tim Woodcock in ME. This is going to be a serious danger for us in the coming years in non-run-off states with liberals waltzing to victories with scarcely 1/4th of the vote while the Conservatives get the other 3/4ths... The big question in NH is whether or not a lot of Conservatives will bother to turn out to help Bradley against Martha Fuller Clark, seeing as it appears there isn't a dimes worth of difference between the two (and that won't help Sununu). Perhaps we should vote for Bradley and then work to unite behind a candidate to beat him in the primary in '04 (and that ought to be Bob Smith).