page_title: 2008 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
section_title: Campaign
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 United States Senate election in New Hampshire / Democratic primary / Campaign
caption_attribution_description: Jeanne Shaheen speaking at a rally; she was eventually elected as junior Senator for New Hampshire, overcoming the Republican incumbent.
context_page_description: The United States Senate election in New Hampshire was held on November 4, 2008. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John E. Sununu ran for re-election to a second term, but was defeated by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in a rematch of the 2002 election. Shaheen's win ended 30 years of Republican control of this Senate seat, and made her the first Democratic Senator from New Hampshire since John A. Durkin left office in 1980.
context_section_description: Astronaut Jay Buckey MD, Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand, and Katrina Swett, (wife of former Congressman Richard Swett), had announced their candidacies but withdrew in favor of former governor Jeanne Shaheen upon her entrance into the race.
  Shaheen had been the Democratic nominee for the race in 2002.  Since 2005, Shaheen had served as director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government before leaving on September 14, 2007. She had been aggressively courted to run by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) on behalf of Senate Democrats, and by a "Draft Shaheen" campaign led by former New Hampshire Democratic Chairman Kathy Sullivan.
  The filing deadline for the Democratic and Republican Parties was June 13, 2008. Shaheen filed, as did Raymond Stebbins.
caption: Shaheen, the Democratic choice, at a rally in the lead-up to the election.
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