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SEEING THE X IN XMAS A new exposé, The War on Christmas, chronicles such church-state killjoys as a New Jersey school's recent ban on even instrumental versions of Christmas carols...
...Amount a New Jersey school district agreed to pay a teen after a court ruled his right to free speech was violated when he was punished for creating a website critical of teachers...
...discouraging night for the White House. The other marquee contest was for Governor of New Jersey, where Sen. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, drubbed Republican benefits-management executive Doug Forrester. Across the Hudson, Republican Michael Bloomberg was easily reelected Mayor of New York City in a blowout of Democrat Fernando Ferrer...
...needed some good news, and they didn't get it." The results fueled Democratic hopes for a takeover of one or both houses of Congress, although the small number of races in play makes Democratic strategists doubt that is feasible. The off-year governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey tend to be overstated as omens for the following midterm elections, and Bush's aides recognize he is in for a drubbing by the pundits. Republicans point out that the party in the White House has not won a Virginia governor's race since 1973, and that they still hold...
...Jersey governor's race: Sen. Jon S. Corzine, the super-wealthy former chairman of the investment bank Goldman Sachs Group, is getting a surprisingly strong challenge from Republican Doug Forrester, a super-wealthy benefits-management executive who has antagonized conservatives with his support of abortion rights. Corzine is ahead in polls and it would be considered an upset if Forrester won in the Democratic stronghold. Kerry beat Bush in the state last year, 53 percent to 46 percent, and then-Vice President Al Gore ran ahead of Bush in 2000 by an even more commanding 56 percent to 40 percent...