the 6th Congressional District seat has always been a tough win for Republicans and Chandler was basically given the seat as a consolation prize for his bad beating in the gubernatorial election. The special election was to fill the new Governor Ernie Fletcher's seat.
Pretty meaningless all in all Dave despite Chandler's big out of state funding for his campaign. His biggest asset is that his family is well known in the district and the memory of his grandfather, A.B. "Happy" Chandler, who was governor twice, U.S. senator and commissioner of Major League Baseball was played to the hilt.
The Fall election will be the interesting one.

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