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...This election will be won on the ground," says Mary Gutierrez, communications director of the L.A. County AFL-CIO. But Republican insiders, such as former State Senator Jim Brulte, are equally confident that the "tens of millions" their party is spending to get out the vote will counteract all that. Furthermore, Brulte says, thanks to Schwarzenegger the Golden State G.O.P. isn't dispirited and its roster of candidates in down-ticket races is so diverse that "there's something for every Republican to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: Is There Any Hope of Defeating Arnold? | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

Fair. Auger was a popular mayor of Taylorsville, but her Democratic opponent, Jim Bradley, 60, was up by 10 points in the latest polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Approved This Campaign Slogan | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...geyser with Diet Coke and Mentos. Yet this short TV spot may have done more than any other to show YouTube's potential as a political force. In the ad, Fox, a longtime Parkinson's disease sufferer, endorsed Democratic Senate hopeful Claire McCaskill and criticized her opponent, Senator Jim Talent, for opposing "expanding stem-cell research." Last week radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Fox of either acting or going off his meds to exaggerate the ravages of the disease. (If you were an admitted prescription- pill addict, you might hesitate to lecture a beloved, seriously ill star about his medication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: When Politics Goes Viral | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

Murphy, a Democrat, is hoping to unseat Republican incumbent Jim Gerlach. In 2004 she lost to him by two percentage points and recent polls show this race also in dead heat...

Author: By Alexandra Hiatt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Student Activists Turn Political | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...Virginia cities, for example, electronic voting machines have inadvertently shortened the name of the Democratic candidate in one of the tightest Senate races in the nation. In Charlottesville, Falls Church and Alexandria, James H. Webb's name will appear on the ballot summary screen page simply as "James H. 'Jim'"--with no last name. Sounds like a crisis--except that the same thing happened in the June primary and Webb still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Voting Machines Work? | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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