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...working paper says. The paper, posted on the Kennedy School’s Web site last week, used information from the 2003 California recall election—in which 135 candidates, including porn star Mary Carey, the diminutive Gary Coleman, and the ultimately successful Arnold Schwarzenegger, vied for the governorship. California, among other states, lists candidates’ names in an order that changes from district to district. The 157 variations provided a way for the paper’s authors to draw conclusions on miscast votes. Confused or rushed voters would sometimes vote for the candidate adjacent...
...election results provider, and shows how the online and actual votes compared.In Virginia’s race, which would ultimately give the Senate to the Democrats, 57.06 percent of Facebook users supported Webb. Last week’s election yielded Webb 49.6 percent of the vote.In four of six governorship races highlighted by Facebook, users also supported the Democratic candidates. Those races were Arizona, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Only in Texas and Michigan did user choices not correspond with the actual results.Dick M. DeVos, the Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, was the only Republican among these races who received...
...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...
...Meanwhile, in Ohio, Rep. Ted Strickland, a former Methodist minister, took the state’s governorship in a rout, marking the first time that Ohio has seen a Democratic chief since...
Deval L. Patrick ’78 handily defeated Lt. Gov. Kerry M. Healey ’82 yesterday, reclaiming the Massachusetts governorship for Democrats after 16 years of Republican administrations. Patrick will be the first black governor of Massachusetts and the only black governor in the nation...