None of that makes her survival less remarkable. The senator is, after all, a Washington incumbent at a time when both incumbency and all things federal are held to be wildly unpopular. Her opponents accused her of spending too much time in the nation's capital and too little in her home state. And she had attracted the wrath of the trade unions, which made her victory, by a healthy 52% to her opponent's 48%, a blow not only to the gathering conventional wisdom about the angry mood of voters as the mid-term elections draw near but also to organised labour.

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