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When voters go to the polls in eight states on Tuesday, pundits will go to work. From California, where Democrats will select a challenger to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Alabama, where voters are expected to overwhelmingly approve a referendum banning gay marriage, these election results will be scrutinzed by political observers for clues as to where the country is heading - and whether the Republicans will face trouble in this November's mid-term elections...
...Another race attracting national interest is Alabama's gubernatorial primary, where incumbent Republican Bob Riley faces ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who famously fought to keep the Ten Commandments displayed at his courthouse. Moore was once thought to pose a strong challenge, but he's proven to be a less than able campaigner. He recently drew ridicule for suggesting that mad cow disease was fake and denounced a state effort to track cattle as part of an effort to run private farms out of business. In Montana, two popular Democrats square off for the chance to take...
...theme to watch on this primary day is the fate of some famous political heirs. In New Jersey, Tom Kean, Jr., the son of former Republican Governor and 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Tom Kean, is expected to grab the GOP nomination for governor. In Alabama, the son of the late Gov. George C. Wallace will probably win the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. And in Iowa, the leading Democrat in the state's gubernatorial primary is Secretary of State Chet Culver, son of the state's longtime senator Dick Culver. If he wins, Culver would face Republican Congressman Jim Nussle...
...three college students arrested in March for the burnings of nine rural churches in Alabama will most likely never go to trial, sources in the case tell TIME. Judge John E. Ott announced Monday that their trial date has been moved from June to November - a delay, according to the sources, that is the result of infighting over a plea agreement among federal prosecutors, the Alabama state attorney and three county prosecutors. The issue: where the trio will serve their jail time...
...cases, says U.S. attorney Alice Martin, local prosecutors typically agree to a federal sentence in federal prison, if only to save the locals money. But in this racially charged case (five of the churches burned were predominantly black), bringing justice home is an issue. "They will do time in Alabama. I am not bending on that," says Bibb County DA Michael Jackson. Meanwhile, Alabama Attorney General Troy King, who is up for re-election this year, says he will not agree to a sentence and jail time that's federal only. "These were Alabama churches, Alabama congregations and there will...