Rep. Wayne Gilchrest was the most liberal Republican to come from a congressional district that has voted for President Bush, according to the American Conservative Union’s ratings. Conservative challenger Andy Harris, a state senator, upset him yesterday. The results, according to the Maryland election board: Harris, 39.8 percent; Gilchrest, 35.6 percent; state senator E.J. Pipkin, who wound up not playing the spoiler role that some had predicted, 21.4 percent. My story on the race was published in NR a couple of issues ago and made available on NRO yesterday here.
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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