Former N.H. governor Jeanne Shaheen’s September decision to run for U.S. Senate may have changed the landscape of this year’s race.

But it hasn’t changed the course of Jay C. Buckey’s campaign.

Two of the other three Democratic candidates, Steve Marchand and Katrina Swett, quickly backed out of the race when Shaheen declared her intention to challenge incumbent John E. Sununu, R-N.H., for his Senate seat. But Buckey, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover and a former astronaut, stayed on target.

“When we first got in the race, we knew that we’d have to start from scratch to start raising funds and for people to get to know us,” said Buckey, 51, of Hanover. “That’s always been true whether somebody else got into the race or not.

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