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In a low-turnout election, Coakley won the nomination with 47 percent of the vote—nearly 20 percent more than her closest competitor, Congressman Michael E. Capuano, who represents Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, and Chelsea in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Voter turnout for the special election primaries was relatively lackluster, with Cambridge logging only 15 percent of its registered voters, according to Executive Director of the Cambridge Election Commission Marsha Weinerman.
Brian S. McNiff, spokesman for Mass. Secretary of State William F. Galvin, said that it was difficult to judge the turnout for yesterday’s elections since it was the first ever special election held statewide.
Bolivian voters, at least, issued a resounding yes in Sunday's presidential election: the initial tally shows Morales, now 50, winning re-election with 63% of the vote, almost 10 points better than his 54% showing four years ago. He defeated his closest opposition candidate by 40 points. His party...
Despite the energy nationalization and Morales' strident anticapitalist rhetoric, Weisbrot adds, foreign investment is higher now than it was under many of Morales' predecessors. Much of that success was driven by the decade's abnormally high prices for commodities like natural gas, and it was hardly expected from a man...