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Eighteen-year-old Democrat Alexander J. Gallichon—an Extension School student working toward a degree in 2010—is hoping to become the youngest state representative in New Hampshire’s history in next Tuesday’s election.Gallichon, who graduated from Nashua High School South in Nashua, N.H., last May, started a consulting business, and, fittingly, began taking government classes at Harvard this fall.If elected, he says he would remain enrolled in the Extension School while representing wards 5, 8, and 9, roughly the southern portion of Nashua.Gallichon says he decided to run for public...
...There Any Hope of Defeating Arnold? Democrat Phil Angelides is way behind the California governor. Here are four keys to how he could (but probably won't) pull off a last-minute surprise
...Pork Trumps Scandal in West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan was supposed to be one ethically challenged incumbent that Republicans could beat. But so far, voters don't seem to agree
...Some Republican activists, however, think Perry's woes are less indicative of the national scene, than his own background - as a former Texas rural Democrat. "He's a farmer from Haskell. Pragmatically, he is a conservative Democrat," says former Texas G.O.P. political director Royal Massett. "They don't see him as John Connally with that charisma, or Lyndon Johnson with his sense of get it done." But what Perry loses from the corporate Republican crowd in Dallas and Houston, he gains in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley and in rural areas. While his TV ads stress border security...
...recent polls, the Democrat Bell has picked up steam, Friedman has started to fade fast and some 20% of voters remain undecided - an unusually high number for so late in the race. The problem for Perry's opponents is that Texans traditionally vote straight ticket 60% of the time. This year, the entrance of two independents into the race, however, has thrown old political calculations to the wind. "If this was a two-person race, he'd probably be in trouble, but as long as there's a four-person race, Perry wins with unimpressive numbers," says UT's Buchanan...