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Old 06-07-2006, 08:23 PM   #1
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ELECTION RESULTS

Other Primary Results:



CALIFORNIA:

-- Senate: Former state legislator Richard Mountjoy is the long-shot Republican nominee in November against Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D).

-- Governor: State Treasurer Phil Angelides narrowly won the Democratic nomination, 48-44 percent, in an expensive and nasty primary over state Controller Steve Westly. Angelides will face GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November.

-- 4th Congressional District: Rep. John Doolittle is one of several Republican incumbents under the microscope for his former friendship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. (See Six Degrees of Jack Abramoff.) Doolittle took 67 percent against an unfunded opponent in the primary and will face retired Air Force Lt. Col. Charlie Brown in the general election. It's hard to make the case that Doolittle is in trouble, but if the "culture of corruption" issue takes off, this would be a seat to watch.

-- 11th Congressional District: Rep. Richard Pombo, another Republican weighed down by his ties to Abramoff, as well as a controversial environmental record, disposed of ex-Rep. Pete McCloskey in the GOP primary with 62 percent of the vote. McCloskey, a liberal Republican who gave up his House seat in a 1982 Senate bid, had challenged President Nixon's renomination on an anti-Vietnam War platform back in '72. Democratic officials in Washington, especially House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, backed Navy veteran Steve Filson in the primary. But Filson was clobbered in the primary by Jerry McNerney, who lost badly to Pombo two years ago.

-- 22nd Congressional District: The seat of powerful House Ways and Means Committee chair Bill Thomas (R), who is retiring after 14 terms, is all but certain to go to state Assembly Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R), a Thomas protégé.

-- 36th Congressional District: Rep. Jane Harman (D), attacked by some in her party for being too hawkish on the war in Iraq, won renomination with 62 percent over anti-war activist Marcy Winograd, who had more of a following in the blogosphere than at the ballot box.



-- Other Races: Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, a former two-term governor and presidential hopeful, won the Democratic primary for attorney general and will face state Sen. Chuck Poochigian (R) in the fall. Succeeding Brown as mayor of Oakland will be former Congressman Ron Dellums (D). The race for lieutenant governor will be between state Sen. Tom McClintock (R) and state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi (D).



ALABAMA:

-- Governor: Gov. Bob Riley (R) easily won renomination against former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, who was ousted from his job when he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a state courthouse building. Riley's Democratic opponent will be Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley, who came from behind to defeat former Gov. Don Siegelman in the primary. Siegelman had been considered the early favorite for the nomination until he was indicted on racketeering charges; he spent primary day, in fact, on trial. He narrowly lost his job four years ago to Riley.

-- Other races: George Wallace Jr., son of the late Alabama Democratic governor and presidential candidate, finished second in the GOP primary for lieutenant governor and advances to a July 18 runoff against attorney Luther Strange. The Republican winner will face former Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. (D) in November. A state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage was passed by a 4-1 margin.



IOWA

-- Governor: Two-term Gov. Tom Vilsack, thought to be eyeing a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in two years, is retiring. The Dem nomination to succeed him was won by Secretary of State Chet Culver, the son of ex-Sen. John Culver. He got 39 percent of the vote against former Economic Development Director/ex-Rep. Michael Blouin and state Rep. Ed Fallon, and will face GOP Rep. Jim Nussle in November.

-- 1st Congressional District: The race for Nussle's House seat will be between entrepreneur Mike Whalen (R) and attorney Bruce Braley (D). This is high on the list of seats the Democrats are hoping to capture in November.



MISSISSIPPI:

-- Senate: State Rep. Erik Fleming has the Democratic nomination but is given no chance in November against three-term GOP Sen. Trent Lott.

-- 2nd Congressional District: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D) defeated state Rep. Chuck Espy, the nephew of Thompson's predecessor, Mike Espy, in the Democratic primary. Both candidates were African-American; Espy had called for a generational change.



MONTANA:

-- Senate: Sen. Conrad Burns (R), who took more money from Jack Abramoff than any other member of Congress, easily won renomination to a fourth term over state Senate Minority Leader Bob Keenan and several others. The Democratic primary was won by state Senate President Jon Tester, who trounced state Auditor John Morrison. Morrison, the early frontrunner in the race, saw his lead vanish following reports of an extramarital affair. The story became even more complicated when the man whom that woman eventually married was investigated by Morrison's office on securities fraud charges -- and allegedly received special treatment in the investigation. Burns, extremely vulnerable this year, narrowly won re-election in 2000; Montana has been trending Democratic ever since.



NEW JERSEY:

-- Senate: Both Robert Menendez, the Democrat who was appointed to the Senate by his predecessor, now-Gov. Jon Corzine, and Republican state Sen. Tom Kean Jr., the son of a popular former governor, easily won their respective primaries. Some were waiting to see how many votes Kean, who is pro-choice, would lose to his conservative primary challenger, John Ginty. But Kean won the primary with 76 percent of the vote.

-- 13th Congressional District: The Democratic nod for the seat vacated by Menendez easily went to former state Assembly Speaker Albio Sires. Sires is the heavy favorite to win the seat in November.



NEW MEXICO:

-- Senate: Urologist Allen McCulloch (R) faces an uphill challenge against four-term Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman in November.

-- Governor: Bill Richardson (D) is the heavy favorite for a second term against Republican radiologist J.R. Damron.



SOUTH DAKOTA:

-- Governor: Gov. Mike Rounds (R) found himself in the midst of controversy earlier this year after he signed the most restrictive abortion bill in the nation. But he remains a clear favorite in November over his Democratic rival, Dr. Jack Billion. Billion, a former state legislator, easily defeated former Farmers Union President Dennis Wiese in the Dem primary.



THE BRONX: Because of all these exciting primaries, not everybody has time to read the sports pages, so I thought we'd help out. Last night, at Yankee Stadium, the ailing, battered, on-life-support, over-the-hill Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox for the second time in a row, by the score of 2-1. The score of Monday night's game was 13-5.



ALL'S WELD THAT ENDS WELD: Bill Weld is out of the contest for governor of New York. Weld, the former two-term Massachusetts governor, had been under mounting pressure to withdraw from the race after his poor showing against John Faso, a former state assemblyman, at last week's state Republican convention. Weld is a pro-choice and pro-gay rights Republican who had the tacit backing of retiring Gov. George Pataki and state GOP chair Stephen Minarik.

But Weld was outhustled and out-organized by Faso, a pro-life former state assemblyman who already had the backing of the N.Y. Conservative Party but who had nowhere near the kind of money that Weld did. Weld lost the official GOP endorsement to Faso last week, 61 percent to 39 percent, and while it was enough to qualify for the Sept. 12 primary ballot, Weld knew his campaign was over. The Democratic frontrunner is state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is a heavy favorite to win the governorship in November, though he does face a primary challenge from Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi.



(Trivia: When Weld first ran for governor of Massachusetts, in 1990, he also lost the party endorsement overwhelmingly at the Republican state convention. But he went on to beat Steven Pierce in the primary and then won the general election.)
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Old 06-07-2006, 11:51 PM   #2
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Thank you!

Hard not to be cynical with the incumbents, un-retiring, wives, kids, proving politicas has more blueblood winners than horseracing!
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You got that right KWP

Politics in general red, blue, green, yellow whatever.

It's the same old mentality of just hang on to the seat.

Hang on to the supposed power. Nod, wink, grip and grin and at the end of the day try to feel that you've made a difference.

Not that some haven't made a dent but today's politicians are seemingly impotent and riddled with the constant balancing act of how to make a decision without loosing the next election.

And so it goes...

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Hillary is running for re-election in NYS......someone.....HELP US!
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If the voters vote to re-elect her that says NY has no other residents who are capable of representing you in the senate!
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Most folks in NYS are not all that bright!
You might know this, but Deliverence was filmed HERE - Alleghaeny Valley!
That kid - you know which one - now sits in the State Legislature.
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