• Legislative Races
  • Legislative returns are slow in coming. Looks like Democrats have knocked off 8 GOP incumbents in the Vermont House, adding to their majority. Democratic candidate/former ...
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  • AZ-GOV: Napolitano Wins
  • Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, has won reelection. Napolitano rejected a pay increase for herself and the modest pay for the office is one ...
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  • Crist Wins
  • CNN calls Florida for Charlie Crist, the Republican state attorney general who will succeed Governor Jeb Bush. Exit polls showed 66 percent approval among voters for ...
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  • Scandal Seats
  • Mark Foley/Joe Negron still hanging tough in Florida, but Republicans have lost one of the other "scandal seats." The Ohio seat held ...
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  • TX-GOV: Perry Wins
  • CNN has Republican Rick Perry winning another term as governor of Texas. Democrat Chris Bell appears to be finishing second, while Kinky Friedman is languishing ...
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  • No Habitat
  • Hodes beats Bass in New Hampshire. Bass was, along with defeated Republican Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chaffee and Connecticut's Nancy Johnson, a classic GOP moderate ...
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  • Gubernatorial State of Play
  • CNN calls Ed Rendell's reelection in Pennsylvania. Also, another term for Jim Doyle, the governor of Wisconsin. Democratic candidates holding big leads right now in ...
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  • Ballot Measure Roundup
  • The ban on same-sex marriage is ahead in Colorado, while the effort to legalize domestic partnerships is currently behind. The ban on affirmative action is ...
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  • Dem Sweep in Indiana
  • The networks finally recognizing that it's election night. ABC is calling all three contested Indiana House seats for the Democrats. Nancy Johnson, a 24-year Connecticut ...
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  • Turning Kansas Purplish?
  • Kansas really is fascinating. Sebelius won four years ago largely because the state GOP there is so fractured. She has been popular but has struggled ...
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