Word: hopfmann
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Silber was in danger of not receiving the requisite 15 percent of the votes at last June's Democratic state convention, but his high media image undoubtedly put him over the edge. Without that 15 percent, he would have gone the way of Alwin E. Hopfmann, an obscure bookstore owner who challenged U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 1982, but could not come up with the necessary votes at the convention...
...there's no mistaking--John Silber has made more of an impression on state politics than Hopfmann ever did, and probably ever will...
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