New Hampshire’s Senate race: Casting stones in the Granite State

ONE candidate, Jeanne Shaheen, is the only woman ever to have been elected both a senator and a governor. The other, Scott Brown (pictured), is the only man ever to have been both a senator and a naked centrefold for Cosmopolitan. Politics in New Hampshire is never boring. To be fair to Mr Brown, the Cosmo shoot was 32 years ago, when he was a hard-up student. Plus, the magazine had just named him “America’s Sexiest Man”, which must have been flattering. Still, the story underlines the contrast between the two rivals. Mr Brown, a Republican, is flashy. Mrs Shaheen, a Democrat, is not.When Mr Brown was a senator, he represented liberal Massachusetts, not New Hampshire. After Ted Kennedy died in 2009, Mr Brown briefly captured the old lion’s seat by charming discontented voters. He lost to Elizabeth Warren two years later, but earned a reputation as a charismatic moderate. So the Republican establishment practically begged him to move to New Hampshire this year and challenge Mrs Shaheen.Tall, grey and handsome, he talks fast, thinks fast and interacts easily with voters, even hostile ones. At a town-hall...

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