Democrat Widens Lead in Washington Governor's Race
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Democrat Christine Gregoire expanded her lead over Republican Dino Rossi to 130 votes to win the race for Washington state governor in a recount seven weeks after the election, officials said on Thursday.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire's improbable rally in the marathon Washington governor's race picked up steam on two fronts: in a hand recount that nudged her 10 votes into the lead, and in a court ruling likely to land even more ballots in her column.
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After a bitter and protracted recount fight in the Washington State governor&#39;s race, elections officials announced Wednesday that the Democratic candidate, Christine O. Gregoire
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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by 130 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast, according to final recount results announced Thursday from Seattle's King County, the last of the state's 39 counties to report.
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Republican Dino Rossi kept a razor-thin lead in the Washington governor's race as counties raced a Wednesday deadline for recounting 2.8 million ballots &#151; and girded for yet another possible recount.
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Washington state Attorney General Christine Gregoire jumped to a lead in very early returns for the Democratic nomination for governor in one of the hardest-fought contests Tuesday as eight states decided primaries.
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Riding the momentum of an overwhelming primary victory, Republican Attorney General Charlie Crist has grabbed an early, commanding lead over Democrat nominee Jim Davis in their quest to be governor, a new poll shows.
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DES MOINES, Dec. 31 -- The tense and unpredictable three-way Democratic battle in Iowa got a surprising jolt late Monday when a new poll showed Sen. Barack Obama widening his lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former senator John Edwards.
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Recount Begins in Wash. Governor&#39;s Race; Republican Dino Rossi Led by 261 Votes in First Count. Govs.-elect Matt Blunt of Missouri, left, and Dino Rossi of Washington, confer during a break at the Republican
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Washington state's unresolved race for governor will be extended further with a hand recount of the 2.8 million votes cast, after Democrats agreed to pay for another tally of the ballots which had their candidate losing to the Republican contender by 42 votes.
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Three days after Election Day, Democrat Christine Gregoire clung to a narrow lead Friday in the nation's last undecided race for governor &#151; a cliffhanger contest that could drag on for weeks while the votes are counted.
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Washington Democrats will pay for a second recount in the state&#39;s unsettled governor&#39;s race, hoping it will erase the 42-vote margin held by Republican Dino Rossi.
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The race for governor of Washington was still undecided Saturday as a recount got under way. When all the state's counties reported their tallies last Wednesday, Republican Dino Rossi had only 261 more votes than Democrat Christine Gregoire, out of some 2.8 million ballots. State law requires a machine recount when the margin is less than 2,000 votes.
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A Maryland Republican contender for the U.S. Senate is fast outpacing the fundraising of his Democratic challengers in a state that usually leans toward Democrats.
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The head of the state Democratic Party said late Tuesday that recount results from King County give Democrat Christine Gregoire an eight-vote victory in the closest governor's race in state history.
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Recount Begins in Wash. Governor&#39;s Race; Republican Dino Rossi Led by 261 Votes in First Count. Washington Governor-elect Dino Rossi, right, listens to a Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, address by Homeland Security
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More than seven weeks after the election, Democrat Christine Gregoire took the lead in Washington's governor's race Wednesday, gaining a 10-vote advantage over Republican Dino Rossi after King County officials announced results of a hand recount.