Word: democratic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...week and a half before the Harvard-Yale Game, Law School alum Eliot Spitzer captured the New York governorship previously held by Eli George Pataki. The Democrat Spitzer won 69 percent of the vote in a race against a little-known Republican former state assemblyman...
...That familiar victor's olive branch did little to placate worried Republicans, who are preparing for life under a Democrat-led House, which will mean the loss of subpoena power and committee chairmanships that comes with defeat. G.O.P. strategists blamed the defeat on two factors: badly run races in the northeast and the wave of scandal that overtook the party. "The scandal seats clearly hurt us and our performance in the northeast was not good," said National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman Carl Forti. But he claimed some solace in races the party appeared likely to pull out in Connecticut...
...first indication of real trouble for the Republicans on Tuesday came with the loss of Kentucky's third district, where the competent and attractive five-term incumbent Anne Northup was unseated by Democrat John Yarmuth in a race that focused on Iraq and the performance of the Bush administration. Another key early indicator of discontent with Bush and Iraq came with the loss of twelve-term incumbent Nancy Johnson's solid seat in Connecticut...
...Pennsylvania, 20-year House veteran Curt Weldon fell to the square-jawed Admiral and Clinton administration official, Joe Sestak. Also in Pennsylvania, political newcomer Christopher Carney downed four-term incumbent Don Sherwood, who pleaded with voters to forgive his marital infidelity, apparently to no avail. In Ohio, the Democrat Zack Space pummeled Joy Padgett, the hand-picked replacement of Rep. Bob Ney, who resigned amid an investigation of his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
...both contests, however, the Democrat was ahead. State Senator Jon Tester was ahead, but just barely, of incumbent Republican Conrad Burns in Montana. And Democratic challenger Jim Webb clung to a thin lead over incumbent Sen. George Allen in Virginia...