The accidental congressman: the surprising success and strict constitutionalism of Georgia Rep. Paul Broun.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Published | 2008-02-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Evaluation | Paul Broun |
| Person | Elections | Paul Broun |
| Author | n/a | David Weigel |
PUNDITS, ACADEMICS, AND Republican activists in Georgia want to make this perfectly clear: Paul Broun is an accidental congressman.
"I was flabbergasted when he won the election," admits Jim Box, one of many eminences in the Georgia Republican Party who declined to endorse the 61-year-old house call doctor before his upset victory in a special election last July. Box runs the GOP in Clarke County, which surrounds Athens and includes the University of Georgia; it's the area that gave Broun his winning majority.
"All the long-term historical indicators," says Merle...
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