Word: hargett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue that might at last win back the blue-collar workers, especially Southern whites, who had been deserting them in droves. Some read great significance into a special congressional election in the First District of Texas in August. Democrat Jim Chapman, an advocate of protection, defeated Republican Edd Hargett, who said that he did not understand "what trade policies have to do with bringing jobs to east Texas." Later analysis suggested that many voters were bothered less by Hargett's stand on trade than by a feeling that he might not be especially bright, but at the time Democrats were...
...that eastern Texas race, the Democratic candidate, Jim Chapman, defeated a well-financed, former football player and Republican favorite, Ed Hargett...