Chicago voters weigh another Daley term
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Despite a City Hall corruption scandal, Mayor Richard M. Daley sought a sixth term Tuesday in a re-election campaign that could put him on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor.
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Businessman Mauricio Macri leads the vote for mayor of Buenos Aires, but a second round will be needed.
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Rasmussen Reports - Though his lead has slipped a few points over the past month, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson still enjoys a comfortable lead over Republican challenger Katherine Harris.&nbsp; Nelson now leads Harris 54% to 37%. His lead was 23 in the previous poll.
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The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new Democratic mayoral primary in East Chicago, saying the 2003 election in which the longtime mayor claimed victory was fraught with corruption.
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Democratic voters have conflicted feelings about the Clinton White House years. How they judge that era â politically as well as emotionally â may well decide the race for the partyâs presidential nomination.
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Candidates for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee talked Tuesday about the need to rebuild the party from the ground up as they pitched themselves to Democratic mayors.
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By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY  and GREGORY SMITH  Journal Staff Writers  This is another in a series of profiles of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Providence City Council in the Sept. 12 primary.   * * *   South Providence businessman Jose R.
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Marion Barry was picking at a plate of corn and okra and pondering his improbable return to politics Wednesday, a day after winning a Democratic primary for City Council in this most Democratic of cities.
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Fresh from the Independence Day  holiday, Chicago Board of Trade members returned to work on  Thursday expecting more fireworks in the last days of  canvassing before a vote that could decide the exchange&#39;s  future.
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In a Jan. 13 story about the race to replace Rep. Jerry Weller, The Associated Press, relying on information from a political researcher, reported erroneously that Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich carried the congressional district in 2006. The Republican candidate carried the district with 44 percent of the vote compared to 43 percent for Blagojevich and 13 percent for a Green Party candidate.
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Rasmussen Reports - The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll in Illinois shows incumbent Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) leading State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka (R) 48% to 36%. This represents Blagojevich&#39;s biggest lead of the campaign, and the closest the incumbent has come to reaching the 50% level of voter support.
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Chicago can &#39;&#39;live without&#39;&#39; Wal-Mart, Mayor Daley said Tuesday, but he questioned whether the reverse is true: whether the nation&#39;s largest retailer can survive the black eye it would suffer by walking away from Chicago.
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John J. Sweeney is facing his first serious challenge as he seeks a fourth term -- and it is from his own base, the labor left. The AFL's 60 member unions will meet in July to choose the next president, but the struggle for votes has already begun.
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An unusually strong majority of D.C. Democrats, including both blacks and whites, united behind a single nominee yesterday to replace a retiring mayor, giving D.C. Council member Adrian M. Fenty a broad mandate to pursue change in city government and the troubled public school system.
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Phyllis Sharkady has voted twice for the local boy who made good, Republican Sen. Rick Santorum. Not this year.
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Voters turned out Tuesday to choose a successor to the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood, and one thing was certain &#151; the winner will be another Republican.
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If the size of the crowd yesterday in this famously liberal city is any indication of how many core Democrats will turn out to vote for Democratic candidate Sen.