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Aging Champion Faces a Young Challenger [IL-08]
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Sep 09, 2004 07:33pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Sep 03, 2004 12:00am |
| Description | PALATINE, Ill., Aug. 28 - For three decades Representative Philip M. Crane has been a fixture at Republican conventions. As a fire-breathing antitax crusader who ran for president in 1980 and loves being called the most conservative member of the House of Representatives, he can always be counted on to rouse the party faithful.
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On Friday Mr. Crane and his Democratic opponent, Melissa Bean, both trolled for votes at a street fair in Palatine, a rapidly growing city 30 miles west of Chicago. Their styles were quite different.
Mr. Crane strolled slowly through the crowd, greeting a handful of people. He spent a few minutes at a hardware store that is one of the town's oldest businesses, shook a few hands, and then was gone.
An hour later, Ms. Bean was pressing herself on one voter after another, promising that she would be a vigorous new voice in Congress. She left each one with a small bag of jelly beans to help them remember her name.
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