VERMONT
      Nov. 2, 2010 U.S. Senate

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+Patrick Leahy (D) i
 		151,281
 		64.33%
Len Britton (R)
 		72,699
 		30.90%
Daniel Freilich (I)
 		3,544
 		1.51%
Cris Ericson (USM)
 		2,731
 		1.16%
Stephen J. Cain (I)
 		2,356
 		1.00%
Pete Diamondstone (S)
 		1,433
 		0.61%
Johenry Nunes (I)
 		1,209
 		0.51%
write-ins
 113

235,178
Registration : 453,181.  Total votes cast: 244,000.
Plurality: 78,582 votes (33.41 percentage points).
 VT Elections


Notes:  Sen. Patrick Leahy (D) won a seventh term, trouncing small business owner and first time candidate Len Britton (R) and five other candidates.  Britton was unopposed in the Republican primary, while Leahy won the Democratic primary with 88.9% of the vote.  Debates included Leahy and Britton on Vermont Public Radio's "Vermont Edition" on Oct. 19 (>).  The race was not competitive financially.  Open Secrets reports the Leahy campaign raised $4.9 million, spent $4.1 million and finished with cash on hand of $2.1 million compared to the Britton campaign's budget of less than $250,000 (>).
 



Campaign Managers:
Patrick Leahy:  Carolyn Dwyer
Management consultant, has worked on previous Leahy campaigns.  Campaign manager on Rep. Peter Welch's 2008 and 2006 campaigns.  Directed Vermont fundraising on Howard Dean's 2003-04 presidential campaign.  M.P.A. from The George Washington University, 1995; B.A. from Alverno College, 1990.  Resident of Essex, VT.

Len Britton:  Bradford Boyles
(Sept. 2010, succeeding Jeffrey Bartley and earlier Dan Riley)




See also:
Alicia Freese.  "Former Britton campaign manager prevails in lawsuit."  VTDigger, Dec. 6, 2013.


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