Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kate Whitman
Amply satisfies  and , which explicitly states that losing a race is no more a guarantor of non-notability than winning one is a guarantor of the opposite.  To wit: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, ''although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."''  Done and done
— User:Fordmadoxfraud, 15:11, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)