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...elected officials have stumbled as badly of late as Schwarzenegger, 58, who rode a wave of voter discontent into office in a recall election in late 2003. His reversal of fortune reached its apogee last week in another special election, when four ballot initiatives he pushed were all resoundingly defeated. The measures would have increased from two to five the number of years it takes schoolteachers to qualify for tenure, required public-sector unions to get permission from members before using their dues for political campaigns, turned congressional redistricting over to a panel of retired judges rather than legislators...
...local political pundit Robert Winters said the decline in voter participation was not unique to Cambridge...
Sullivan, a 12-year council veteran who is currently serving his fourth year as mayor, attributed the low turnout to voter satisfaction with the council over which he has presided...
Traditional favorite Anthony D. Galluccio placed first again this year, but lower voter turnout and stronger showings from challengers diluted his influence. This would prove fatal for incumbent Maher, who has in past years benefitted from Galluccio’s transfer votes...
...supposed to be simple. Two years ago, as Cantabrigians headed to the polls on Election Day, observers predicted an easy victory for all nine City Council incumbents.That’s just the way things work in Cambridge: barring any radical developments, voters tend to stick with the political status quo. But by the end of the night, all bets were off. After the first-place votes had been tallied, mouths hung agape in the Cambridge Senior Center, where the city’s political classes gather every two years for the ballot count. Sitting in eighth place?...