He lost in 2002 to Elizabeth Dole in the election to replace longtime Republican Sen.

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Snowe was elected to the Senate with 60 percent of the vote during the Republican revolution of 1994, filling the seat of longtime Democratic Sen.

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He was a longtime political supporter of Sen.

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Longtime pork barrel spending critic Sen.

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