Web Update: Holt wins close race

[bananas]

Source: Daily Princetonian

Democratic Rep . Rush Holt defeated Scott Sipprelle , his Republican challenger , by 7 percentage points
in Tuesday ’s election . Holt received 53 percent of the vote , while Sipprelle had 46 percent.

Holt, the former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory , earned a seventh term
in Congress and will represent the state’ s 12 th District , which includes Princeton and other parts of
central New Jersey .

It was the closest race for Holt following the redistricting that preceded the 2002 election . Going into
this election, he won his previous four races by margins between 18 and 31 percentage points. But
Sipprelle , a Wall Street banker - turned - entrepreneur , held Holt to a tight victory this year.


Read more: www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/11/03/26752/

[EFerrari]

1. Good news! Thank you!

K&R

[bananas]

2. Here's a good endorsement I just came across

I'm having computer problems, so I'll just post the link:
www.balloon-juice.com/2010/10/14/rush-holt-nuclear-fucking-physicist/

[rayofreason]

4. Holt...

...is a plasma physicist, not a nuclear physicist.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Any bit of good news helps...