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Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, left, criticizes the state's gay marriage panel as its chairman, Rep. Tony Soltani, R-Epsom, right, and its clerk Maureen Mooney, R-Merrimack, center, look on prior to a news conference in Concord, N.H., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005. Vaillancourt was on the minority side of the panel and disagreed with the majority's recommendation that same sex couples in the state be denied legal status. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) JIM COLE

Last Updated Oct 13, 2014 4:15 PM EDT

New Hampshire State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt wrote a long blog post predicting the outcome of the race in the state's 2nd Congressional District on one factor: incumbent Democratic Rep. Ann McLane Kuster's looks.

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"Let's be honest. Does anyone not believe that Congressman Annie Kuster is as ugly as sin? And I hope I haven't offended sin," Vaillancourt wrote on NH Insider, a New Hampshire politics blog.

By contrast, he wrote, Kuster's Republican challenger, State Rep. Marilinda Garcia, is "one of the most attractive women on the political scene anywhere, not so attractive as to be intimindating [sic], but truly attractive."

Vaillancourt writes that he was inspired to write the post after hearing "some polling data which went by too fast for me to write down."

"I seem to recall hearing that a new survey is out revealing that, with two caveats, an attractive candidate can have as much as a seven to ten point advantage over a less attractive (or even an unattractive) candidate," he wrote.

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