Word: governorship
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Vocal public disapproval with Duke, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who is now on the verge of winning Louisiana's Governorship, has been notably absent across the country. Only in Louisiana have voters expressed their discontent. Elsewhere, Duke's remarkable rise in the polls has turned few heads...
...scant prospects for raising a large campaign chest. He is emphasizing a message of fiscal austerity that puts him to the right of many Democratic primary voters. A party strategist who knows Wilder well describes his guiding philosophy as "none, zip, zero." Wilder's insistence on playing the governorship by his own quirky rules has also caused his Virginia poll numbers to sink. Says Brad Coker, president of Mason-Dixon Opinion Research: "If he ran for re-election today, he could...
Hopkins sought to raise questions about Jones' personal finances in his effort to wrest the Kentucky governorship from Democrats. But his campaign was damaged when his name turned up on a list of lawmakers who had bounced checks at the House bank, and he conceded his overdrafts ran to 32 checks totaling $4,035 for the 12 months ending June...
...longer have time to handle the minor calls. They're out on major crimes. To say the economy has had a devastating effect on the city is to put it mildly." Tourism and the promise of revenues from riverboat gambling offer some hope. But the specter of a Duke governorship chills many business leaders, who think tourists will stop coming and companies will leave the state if he is elected...
...Monday, Cuomo told Albany's WAMC radio that quitting the New York governorship to run for president might be "a from of abandonment...