This post is a waste of your time: Andrews' win U.S. Senate primaries nearly 78% of the time
By Wally EdgeIt’s been a long day, and while there is hardly a challenge for content, here’s one item that is so insignificant that you need to be a card carrying political junkie to read on: Rob Andrews today became the seventh man named Andrews to run for the United States Senate. And it’s been 28 years since a man named Andrews has won a U.S. Senate seat, which is actually eight years less than it’s been since a Republican U.S. Senate candidate won New Jersey.
The last Andrews to win was Mark Andrews, who won in North Dakota in 1980 and lost in 1986. The only other Andrews to serve in the Senate was Charles Andrews of Florida, who was elected in 1934 and served until his death in 1946. Lloyd Andrews lost his Senate bid to Henry Jackson in 1964, and Jackson Andrews lost a Senate primary in 1980 and a general to Kentucky’s Wendell Ford in 1986.
Rob Andrews served with two other Congressmen named Andrews who lost U.S. Senate races, both in 1994: Mike Andrews, who was defeated in the Democratic primary in Texas; and Tom Andrews, who lost to Olympia Snowe in Maine.
Here’s our Bill James moment: Andrews for U.S. Senate has gone 7-2 (77.7%) in primaries and 3-4 (75%) in generals, for a combined 10-6 (62.5%) overall record. That’s not as good as Lautenberg for U.S. Senate, which is 7-0 (100%), and much better than Pennacchio for Senate, which so far is 0-1 – Chuck Pennacchio won just 9% of the vote in the 2006 Pennsylvania Democratic primary against Bob Casey.
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this is a waste of time..
because in your attempt to uncover the politically obscure you've been inconsistent in your methodology. for one, i'm pretty sure that an apostrophe at the end of someone's name which ends in S is a sign of possession, since "andrews's win" is grammatically inappropriate. i could very well be wrong, but i just thought, that since no one is supposed to read this post anyway, i would put that out there. also, “Here’s our Bill James moment: Andrews for U.S. Senate has gone 7-2 (77.7%) in primaries and 3-4 (75%) in generals, for a combined 10-16 (62.5%) overall record. “ 7-2 is a record, thus it is 7/9 wins for what I would assume is 77.7%. However, 3-4 cannot be a record because it would thus be 3/7 which is not 75% (I do understand that 3 out of 4 is 75%, i'm just pointing out the inconsistent usage of mathematics) Either way, 7-2 and 3-4 does not combine for a 10-16 record. if you had done 7/9 and 3/7 then it would, but then your percentages (in particular 75%, instead of 43%) are off. And come on, when you combine 77.7 and 75 you get 62.5? That makes sense. perhaps you should focus on simple two liner posts or redistrict southern new jersey.