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...Patrick, an African American, defeated Lt. Governor Kerry Healey in a fierce and ugly race in the Bay State, and Strickland, a longtime congressman, defeated Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, whose campaign was plagued by statewide G.O.P. scandals. Spitzer easily bested John Faso in New York State. The Republicans could point to victories in a few key states, including California, Texas and Florida...
...Particularly sweet for them was the fact that some of the biggest early winners were in Ohio, the state that handed George Bush the electoral votes he needed to win a second term in 2004. Democratic Congressman Ted Strickland was elected Ohio Governor over Republican Ken Blackwell, the secretary of state, in a top-of-the-ballot race that both sides expected to drive a Democratic sweep of that bellwether state. And Democratic Congressman Sherrod Brown defeated incumbent Republican Senator Michael DeWine...
...campaign's closing day, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman sent supporters a cheery memo labeled simply "Momentum," pointing to a variety of independent national polls that suggest a tightening in the G.O.P.'s favor. "Republican enthusiasm is growing," he says, adding graphs and data contending the party is "picking up more swing votes." The memo says the party's turnout machine, the vaunted "72-Hour Program," reached 3 million voters on Saturday alone...
...weekend before Halloween, 50 people crowded into a community forum in Florence with Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar, who had just toured ADX to investigate the security situation. A few days later, Republican Senator Wayne Allard made the same trip. Fremont County sheriff Jim Beicker, who is still waiting for a Homeland Security grant to upgrade his department's radio system, expressed his concerns about the flimsy fence surrounding the prison complex and staffing shortages at ADX. "I want to see these issues fixed," he said. "I don't want to have to lay awake at night and worry...
...posters are reminders of the august figures that the Institute has hosted. Particularly memorable are Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka’s many lectures at Harvard (including a series with fellow Nobel laureate Toni Morrison) and a discussion on jazz and American culture featuring documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Institute Director and Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates...