Chafee Wins Rhode Island Primary
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U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island beat a conservative challenger in Tuesday's primary, fueling Republican hopes to keep Senate control.  Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey conceded at 10:40 p.m., the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported.
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By ROBERT THOMPSON, The Washington Post News service  Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who has bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
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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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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential nominating contest in Nevada on Saturday, Fox News projected.
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"Primary Mistake" (Sentinel, 212 pages. $25.95), by Steve Laffey: There are a lot of possible reasons Steve Laffey lost last year's Republican Senate primary in Rhode Island against former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee. Laffey points the finger in one direction &#151; at his own party.
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Republican Mitt Romney wins the US state of Michigan's presidential primary, ahead of rival Senator John McCain.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Arizona Sen. John McCain won the South Carolina primary on Saturday, strengthening his claim to the Republican U.S. presidential nomination by beating rivals in a Southern state that traditionally has favored their socially conservative message, U.S. media projected.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee  won the Republican presidential nominating race in West  Virginia on Tuesday, defeating rivals John McCain and Mitt  Romney in the first of the day's 24 state contests to pick  candidates for the November election, MSNBC projected.
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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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By RAY HENRY  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee and Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse are neck-and-neck two months before an election that could help decide the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, according to a new Brown University poll.
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Puerto Rico's congressional envoy who favors the island's status as a U.S. territory narrowly won a recount in the governor's race, election officials announced Thursday.
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Seven-term Democratic Rep. Albert R. WynnÃ¢ÂÂs primary contest Tuesday in MarylandÃ¢ÂÂs 4th Congressional District got nowhere near the publicity received by Republican Sen. Lincoln ChafeeÃ¢ÂÂs fight for political survival in Rhode Island. Yet the slow and still-incomplete count in Maryland 4 indicates that Wynn may have ended up with the closest shave of any incumbent in the nine states that held Sept. 12 primaries.
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Republican Mitt Romney claims a win in the primary in the US state of Michigan, ahead of John McCain.
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Sen. Barack Obama won seven of the 10 votes cast for Democrats in the first balloting of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch, while Sen. John McCain won the Republican balloting.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Barack Obama won South Carolina's bitterly contested Democratic presidential primary with the aid of heavy black support on Saturday, dealing a setback to rival Hillary Clinton after a week of political brawling.
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Shrugging off critics who derided her campaign as spectacularly inept, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris easily won the GOP nomination for a shot at unseating incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt  Romney won the Wyoming Republican presidential caucus on  Saturday, taking seven of the state's 12 delegates with nearly  all precincts reporting, according to a state party official.