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For weeks, the television commercials bombarded U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright for voting with President Joe Biden or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 100% of the time.

“Your congressman should stand up to Joe Biden, not hang out with him,” Cartwright’s Republican opponent, Jim Bognet, said in one commercial.

As it turned out, just enough 8th Congressional District voters didn’t mind Cartwright’s tightness with the president and speaker. They voted to send Cartwright to Washington, D.C., for a sixth two-year term, earning $174,000 a year. He won by fewer than 7,000 votes, a 2.4-percentage point victory, his second straight win against Bognet and the closest of all his elections.