
U.S. ballot results called win for Democrats CBC \|\| November 10, 2005 Democrats in the United States are claiming victory in off-year elections Tuesday as party governors were elected in New Jersey and Virginia and four measures sponsored by California's Republican governor went down to defeat. Senator Jon Corzine will become New Jersey's new governor after defeating his Republican opponent by a 10-point margin. Virginia's Democratic lieutenant governor, Tim Kaine, was elected to lead the state despite a last-minute campaign visit by U.S. President George W. Bush supporting the Republican trend. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Voters "want the nation to go in a different way," Democratic party chairman Howard Dean told reporters as the election results came rolling in. New York City's Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg, bucked the anti-Republican trend by easily winning re-election in the Democratic-leaning city. It was one of a dozen major cities holding votes on the same day. Schwarzenegger measures defeated In California, voters rejected four ballot measures backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor-turned-politician whose popularity has been plunging in recent months. The propositions were designed to make new teachers work five years of probation instead of two, cap spending, limit what public-sector unions can do with union dues and eliminate the ability of state politicians to redraw the boundaries of their districts. Schwarzenegger faces a re-election campaign next year. Other ballot initiatives and elections across the country showed a split in opinion on the contentious issues of same-sex rights and the origin of the universe. Texas voters made their state the 19th to ban same-sex marriage, while Maine voters chose to uphold a law boosting the rights of gays. In Dover, Penn., voters elected a slate of candidates to replace a school board that had supported the teaching of intelligent design in local classrooms. That's the theory that assumes an intelligent creator must have been involved when the universe came to life, rather than random scientific forces and evolution. Home	Weekly
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U.S. ballot results called win for Democrats

CBC || November 10, 2005

Democrats in the United States are claiming victory in off-year elections Tuesday as party governors were elected in New Jersey and Virginia and four measures sponsored by California's Republican governor went down to defeat.

Senator Jon Corzine will become New Jersey's new governor after defeating his Republican opponent by a 10-point margin.

Virginia's Democratic lieutenant governor, Tim Kaine, was elected to lead the state despite a last-minute campaign visit by U.S. President George W. Bush supporting the Republican trend.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Voters "want the nation to go in a different way," Democratic party chairman Howard Dean told reporters as the election results came rolling in.

New York City's Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg, bucked the anti-Republican trend by easily winning re-election in the Democratic-leaning city.

It was one of a dozen major cities holding votes on the same day.

Schwarzenegger measures defeated

In California, voters rejected four ballot measures backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor-turned-politician whose popularity has been plunging in recent months.

The propositions were designed to make new teachers work five years of probation instead of two, cap spending, limit what public-sector unions can do with union dues and eliminate the ability of state politicians to redraw the boundaries of their districts.

Schwarzenegger faces a re-election campaign next year.

Other ballot initiatives and elections across the country showed a split in opinion on the contentious issues of same-sex rights and the origin of the universe.

Texas voters made their state the 19th to ban same-sex marriage, while Maine voters chose to uphold a law boosting the rights of gays.

In Dover, Penn., voters elected a slate of candidates to replace a school board that had supported the teaching of intelligent design in local classrooms. That's the theory that assumes an intelligent creator must have been involved when the universe came to life, rather than random scientific forces and evolution.

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