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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...
...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...
...Harvard, he says, “I was a bit disillusioned with my Gov classes, because, although I did very well in my international affairs classes, I felt that came from an ability to spit out good test answers rather than from really understanding the texture of foreign societies...
Patrick also said that Massachusetts was losing ground to North Carolina and California in biotechnology research. He drew strong applause when he took a shot at Gov. W. Mitt Romney, saying that the governor had refused to fund stem cell research with state money and because he was too concerned with “playing politics...
...delivered one of his best-received lines of the night, asking rhetorically, “Are we seriously going to consider an insider candidate who has presided over so much of the calamity in our lives?” The ambiguous line was aimed either at Reilly or Lt. Gov. Kerry M. Healey ’82, the presumptive Republican nominee, who Patrick would race in the general election if he were to win the primary...