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Congraulations also goes to Senator-elect Tom Udall of New Mexico. He will be joining Senator Reid as the second LDS Senator who is a Democrat.
His cousin, Mark Udall (who is not LDS) also won in Colorado.
Their second cousin’s fate, incumbent senator Gordon Smith, is still up in the air as his race is still too close to call.
And why of all GOP Senators does Stevens have to hang on? It’s been a cruel election.
Tom Udall has reversed himself and has announced his campaign for the New Mexico senate seat . Strangely, this Associated Press article makes a big deal that Tom and his cousin, Mark Udall from Colorado, are both running for Senate but overlooks another cousin. Gordon Smith will be defending his Senate seat in Oregon.
All three are considered to have very good chance of winning so the next Senate may have three cousins in it. If so, Tom Udall would join Harry Reid as a LDS Senate Democrat.
From RealClearPolitics:
The retirement of Sen. Pete Domenici, which he is expected to announce today from Albuquerque, sets up the possibility of a bid by Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM), son of the late Rep. Stewart Udall (D-AZ) and cousin of Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO), who is running for Senate himself. But what we overlooked, which Taegan Goddard points out today, is that a third cousin to both congressmen, Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, a Republican, is running for re-election. Have three first cousins ever been on the ballot for Senate in the same year before?
If Rep. Tom Udall becomes Sen. Domenici’s successor, he will join Sen. Reid as another Democrat senator who is LDS. Sen. Smith is also LDS while Rep. Mark Udall has no religious affiliation
UPDATE: Alas, it’s not to be. Rep. Tom Udall opts not to run for the Senate.
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