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Sonny Bono: Election
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''She'll have to run on a record and not on the Sonny Bono name alone,'' said Mr. Waite's spokesman, Greg Pettis. Mr. Waite, who was appearing in a play in New Jersey during most of the election period had limited ability to campaign in person, and Mr. Pettis said he considered the loss a setback, not a defeat.
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In 1996, Sonny was nominated by the Republican Party and ran for President against the incumbent Bill Clinton, with his chosen running mate and secret lover Fred "Gopher" Grandy. After Sonny and Gopher spent a record $500,000,000,000 during the heated election campaign, Clinton won easily by a margin of as many as 540 electoral votes.
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In the end, all the weirdness apparently didn't matter too much to the voters, who returned Bono to Congress with 57 percent of the vote. On election night, Bono called the controversy over the debate and the ulcer "fluff" and "hullabaloo."
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