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Incumbent governor Rick Perry beat U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican gubernatorial primary race on March 2. Perry prevailed with 51% of the vote and will run against former Houston mayor Bill White, the Democratic-primary winner, for what would be Perry's third full term. Strategists suggest that Perry was able to secure the win by portraying Hutchison as a Washington insider despite both candidates' Texas roots...
...streets. But at least the sectarian battles between Sunnis and Shi'ites that once raged through the city are now confined mostly to the ballot box as Baqubah, along with the rest of Iraq, prepares for national parliamentary elections on March 7. Inside the fortified government headquarters, Diyala's governor, Abdul-Nasser al-Mahdawi, is relatively optimistic that the elections - the fifth poll since the U.S. brought democracy to Iraq - will go smoothly. "The country is getting better at elections," he tells TIME. "In the first, the fraud was about 40%. In the second, let's say 20%." Still...
Florida voters knew Republican Governor Charlie Crist would go on the attack sooner or later this year to try to salvage his floundering campaign for the U.S. Senate. But they surely had no idea that his rival's grooming habits would become an issue. Last week on Fox News, Crist blasted his surging opponent in the August Republican primary election, former Florida house speaker Marco Rubio, for having used a GOP-issued American Express card for personal purchases, including $133.75 spent at a deluxe Miami barbershop. Rubio is "trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative," Crist said...
...Even national Republican leaders who tripped over one another last year to endorse Crist, a governor who until recently enjoyed approval ratings as high as 70%, are backing off. Texas Senator John Cornyn, who heads the GOP's Senate campaign committee, said last week that while he's not dropping his endorsement altogether, he regrets having jumped to anoint Crist so soon - back when the governor "seemed like the ideal candidate...
...probably not enough to tamp down the criticism Crist himself faces. By trying to convince the right that he's the true conservative - after spending four years as a moderate, Rockefeller-style Republican Governor - Crist has drawn accusations that he's more ambitious chameleon than judicious consensus builder. What's more, his massive state purchase of U.S. Sugar Corp. land to enhance Everglades restoration, touted last year as a landmark environmental triumph, is now under scrutiny as a sweeter deal for the sugar giant: the company was represented by a legal firm headed in part by Crist's former chief...