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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Recount results from King County on Wednesday made Democrat Christine Gregoire the apparent but unofficial winner of the extraordinarily close Washington governor&#39;s race.
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Seven weeks after 2.8 million people voted to elect a governor for Washington state, the Democratic candidate took the lead by a 10-vote margin in an unprecedented hand recount, election officials said on Wednesday.
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Administrators are hoping that the victor in this year's presidential election will win by a wide margin. A close race, they fear, will result in more charges of voter fraud and demands for recounts. Kim Zetter reports from Washington.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire was officially named Washington&#39;s governor-elect on Thursday, 58 days and two recounts after the closest election in the state&#39;s history.
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Recount results make Democrat Christine Gregoire the apparent and unofficial winner in the Washington governor's race.
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California Gov. Arnold   Schwarzenegger widened his lead over his Democratic   gubernatorial rival to ten points, according to the latest   Field Poll of 557 likely voters released on Wednesday.
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Rasmussen Reports - Though by a slimmer margin than last month, Democratic Governor Ted Kulongoski is maintaining a comfortable advantage over Republican Ron Saxton in Oregon&#39;s gubernatorial race. Kulongoski now leads 47% to 38%. Pundits in the state have been expecting the race to tighten.
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The cliffhanger in Washington State seems to have a winner: the Democratic candidate, Christine Gregoire.
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Rasmussen Reports - Incumbent Democratic Gov. Brad Henry has extended his already impressive lead over U.S. Rep. Ernest Istook by four points since last month&#39;s survey.&nbsp; The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll shows Henry leading Istook 59% to 34%.
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Democratic presidential  candidate Barack Obama has widened his lead in Iowa over rivals  Hillary Clinton and John Edwards heading into Thursday's  caucuses, according to a poll by The Des Moines Register  released on Monday.
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The Democratic candidate steps up his airwaves campaign in an early state.
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Democrats in Washington state, fearing  their candidate may lose a governor's race as ballot counting  continued 10 days after the vote, got a court order on Friday  to stop the state's largest county from discarding hundreds of  ballots.
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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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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by a 130-vote margin 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 has a 42-vote lead over Democratic state Attorney General Christine Gregoire in the race to become governor of Washington, according to a recount of ballots that may be challenged by Democrats.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire, the three-term state attorney general who fought America's tobacco industry, Internet porn and schoolyard bullying, becomes Washington's governor-elect on Thursday, by a scant 129 votes out of more than 2.8 million cast.