Civil-rights veteran wins Mass. governor primary
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Deval Patrick, a former top U.S.  civil-rights enforcer, will try to become Massachusetts' first  black governor and break a 16-year Republican hold on the  office after winning the liberal state's Democratic primary on  Tuesday.
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AMHERST -- Deval Patrick couldn't be present for the presentation of the Governor's Cup at the end of Boston College's 84-73 victory over Massachusetts in last night's Commonwealth Classic. So the job fell upon UMass athletic director John McCutcheon, who had hoped to hand the hardware to his basketball coach, Travis Ford.
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Maryland Democratic Rep. Albert R. Wynn clinched victory in the Sept. 12 primary in the 4th District, following a final vote count and a concession by challenger Donna Edwards, who fell just short of toppling the seven-term incumbent.
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John McCain, a US Senator and Vietnam war veteran, on Saturday won a tight race in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary over rival Mike Huckabee.
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BOSTON -- He has been a successful venture capitalist and management consultant, and he saved the tainted 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics from scandal. But it is his single term as Massachusetts governor that is Mitt Romney's chief credential in his bid for the Republican nomination for president....
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Former Rep. Ron Dellums appeared to win the mayor&#039;s race late Friday after a final ballot count showed he got the majority of votes needed to avoid a November runoff.
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The come-from-behind candidate scores an impressive win over Mitt Romney in the nation's first primary, while the Clinton-Obama race appears tighter than expected
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Deval Patrick, a former United States assistant attorney general easily won the Massachusetts Democratic primary for governor.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney  won the Republican presidential nominating contest in Nevada on  Saturday, Fox News projected.
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Former Gov. Mitt Romney had enough goodwill left among fellow Massachusetts Republicans to carry him past rival John McCain, while the race between Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton was too close to call.
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Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney yesterday won a straw poll of conservative political activists gathered in Washington, a very early indication of how an important Republican constituency might vote.
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Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller is now the official winner of the tightly contested Aug. 15 Republican primary for his stateÃ¢ÂÂs open2nd Congressional District seat Ã¢ÂÂ following a court ruling Friday that rejected an attempt by his closest competitor,state Assemblywoman Sen. Sharron Angle, to have the outcome of the primary vacated and a new election called.
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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, dogged by criticism about being appointed to her job by her governor father, was leading the state's Republican primary on Tuesday, her first statewide election.
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The national Election Day backlash against gay marriage never reached the state blamed for triggering it: Every Massachusetts lawmaker on the ballot who supported gay rights won another term in the Legislature.
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Massachusetts Democrats believe they have a good chance this November to end one of the nationÃ¢ÂÂs most unusual political anomalies: Though their party holds all 12 of MassachusettsÃ¢ÂÂ seats in Congress and dominates both the stateÃ¢ÂÂs legislature and its presidential voting, Republicans have won the past four races for governor dating to 1990.
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Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who scored his first major win in Michigan, told The Associated Press: "It's a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism. The people of Michigan said they believe in someone who is going to fight for them."
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Randy Graf, a conservative activist and former state representative, won a bruising Republican primary in ArizonaÃ¢ÂÂs open 8th Congressional District, despite the opposition of popular retiring Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe and much of the state and national Republican Party establishment.