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...Democrats all but guaranteed that the young BlackBerry-wielding, triathlon-running Councilman Adrian Fenty would win election as mayor in November, by nominating him Tuesday night as the party's candidate in a city that went 89% for John Kerry in 2004. This isn't your standard primary, where only the most motivated voters come out to the polls; it's the only election that matters...
...turnout Tuesday was lower than expected, despite the interest and a watershed opportunity created by Mayor Anthony Williams' stepping down after eight years on the job. Just over 32% of D.C. voters bothered to show up at polling places Tuesday. And unlike in neighboring, affluent Montgomery County, Md., where a series of screwups left voters writing their choices down on blank paper for officials to collect and count later, there were no long lines or busted machines keeping people away. Preliminary statistics show overall turnout in D.C. was actually lower this year than in 2002, when the incumbent Williams...
...presidential elections (if they lose their last home game before Election Day, that's a bad sign for the party in power - so with the GOP extra-nervous this year, expect Republicans to be Dallas Cowboys fans on Nov. 5 even though it's only a midterm). Both the mayor's race and the campaign for D.C. Council chair featured multiple contenders for open seats, and candidates dumped enough money on TV ads and mailers that few could argue they didn't know the election was happening...
...There might not be enough juice in District politics to get national buzz, even when the mayor's office is only a few blocks from the White House. The city's only federal elected office is the non-voting delegate to the House, and some of the biggest news incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton (unchallenged by local Republicans this fall) has made in 16 years in office was when she called Stephen Colbert vanilla in July. The National Governors Association doesn't let D.C.'s top executive join, even though its annual meetings are held across the street from city hall...
...resurgence of corruption that has accompanied China's phenomenal growth has been underlined in recent months by a series of high-level arrests in scandals involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Those detained have included the vice mayor of Beijing, the head of one of China's biggest property companies and senior government and private sector officials in Shanghai. Despite such well-publicized arrests, says Hu Xingdou, a professor of China studies at the Beijing Institute of Technology, there's little sign that the spread of corruption is being slowed by the government's actions. In Liuyang, for example...