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...focus will now be on how to turn the electoral victories into concrete policies that will bring a new direction,” Lesser said. Despite the GOP’s defeat, Kwong said voters had mostly agreed with the Republican platform on specific policy issues on the ballot. “If you look at the single issues...the voters were all in tune with the Republican Party,” he said, specifically citing anti-affirmative action initiatives and same-sex marriage bans. “They just weren’t satisfied with the leadership...
...Ford beat Corker soundly in urban precincts (63 to 37 points in Memphis, 60-39 in Nashville) but Corker swept virtually every rural county. The addition of a ban on gay marriage to the ballot, which passed overwhelmingly by 80%, in the end helped Corker, despite Ford's continued campaigning to the center, at one stop promising to be a "Jesus-loving, gun-supporting" Senator...
...pundits have determined that Democrats owe their victories to Bush's unpopularity, and at least once in the next week you will hear Bush supporters remind you that "Bush's name wasn't on the ballot." Virginia, where Senator George Allen has finally conceded the loss of his seat to Jim Webb, may be the one state where they wish it had been...
...state law, companies can hold a maximum of three liquor licenses—a rule that prevents many supermarket chains from selling beer, wine, and spirits. With 96 percent of precincts reporting early this morning, “no” votes outnumbered “yes” ballots by a 12 percentage point margin. But in Cambridge, where voters’ liberal leanings apparently apply to libations as well, 58 percent supported the measure. The rejection of the initiative represents a significant reversal of voter opinion in recent months—a June poll by Suffolk University?...
...President Bush put it in a White House news conference, "a thumpin'" for Republicans up and down the ballot. It was also the biggest defeat of Bush's presidency, depriving him of a governing majority in Washington and raising new doubts about his effectiveness and agenda in his final two years in office...