The Lautenberg “win” in ‘94 was suspiciously odious. I still think Haytaian won. Too bad the Senate Republicans never investigated and refused to seat the likes of Lautenberg and Feinstein that year, nevermind Landrieu in ‘96.
Lousenberg’s victory in ‘94 was not exactly small though, was it? I don’t recall hearing of any shenanigans there. I thought that happened before the voting.
Seemed like Haytaian had a shot until the Dems came out with an ad revealing he had a very high absentee rate and missed hundreds of votes in the state legislature. That obviously hurt.
I grew to loathe the senator and started calling him LOUSE-enberg in that race because radio guy Bob Grant called him that. I was outraged when Lousenberg had an ad, or gave a speech, in which he said all Republicans are racists, or words to that effect. It was such a vicious divisive lie that Lousenberg has been on bad side ever since.