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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
What's at stake in Tuesday's elections
By The Associated Press
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What's at stake in Tuesday's election:

GOVERNORS:

Voters in two states, New Jersey and Virginia, are electing governors.

_The New Jersey race has centered on the economy and the state's highest-in-the-nation taxes. Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, the billionaire former Wall Street executive, is fighting to earn a second term. His opponents are Republican former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie and an independent candidate, former state environmental official Chris Daggett.

_In Virginia, where Democrats last year handed the GOP its first presidential defeat in 44 years, the GOP is trying to stage a comeback. Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, a state senator who narrowly lost the attorney general's race to McDonnell four years ago, are running to replace the term-limited Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine.

MAYORS:

Mayors are being elected in several major cities.

_In Atlanta, six candidates are seeking to succeed term-limited Mayor Shirley Franklin in an election that is expected to lead to a December runoff. The top contenders include City Councilwoman Mary Norwood, who was trying to become the city's first white mayor in a generation.

_In New York, billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to spend more than $100 million of his fortune in a bid for a third term, the most expensive self-financed campaign in American history.

_In Houston, four candidates were competing to succeed three-term Mayor Bill White, including city Controller Annise Parker, who would be the city's first openly gay mayor.

_The mayors of Boston, Detroit and Pittsburgh are up for re-election.

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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 4, 2009 - 7:59 AM EST
Charles Martel
You mean, uh, Barry's legendary oratory skils and eloquence are, uh, uh, you know, uh, overrated, uh, you know?
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Date: Nov 3, 2009 - 4:46 PM EST
your eloquent Leader and his cousin
Who had the incandescent idea that the invocation of this mythical "Cousin Pookie" could ever lend dignity or prestige to the person and office of the president?

Listening to Barry off-teleprompter makes me pine for the elocutionary skill of either Bush.


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