Chafee wins as nine states vote
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Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln   Chafee, a frequent foe of President George W. Bush's policies,   beat a conservative primary challenger on Tuesday in a race   crucial to Republican hopes of retaining Senate control in   November's election.
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Democrats Clinton and Obama split states; biggest prize projected for New York senatorSen. John McCain piles up projected wins -- including crown jewels California and New York Mike Huckabee projected for impressive wins in South; Mitt Romney cobbles together victories
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CODY, Wyoming  - 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.
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Senator Barack Obama was lifted to victory by a high turnout. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee defeated the better funded Mitt Romney.
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Here are the latest nationwide election returns in the race for president with 99 percent of the nation's precincts reporting. The winner is marked with an 'x'.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Nevada  contest for the Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday,  defeating her rivals in their first test of strength among  Hispanic voters and boosting her campaign after a narrow  victory in New Hampshire, U.S. media projected.
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Voters in nine states approved constitutional amendments Tuesday to ban same-sex marriage, in most cases by overwhelming margins. Opponents of the bans held out hope that Oregon, where results were not yet in, would buck the trend.
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New Orleans area U.S. Rep. William  Jefferson won a ninth term to Congress in a surprising  landslide on Saturday as loyal black voters shrugged off a  federal bribery investigation into $90,000 found in his  freezer.
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Senator Lincoln Chafee fended off a bid from a populist challenger, keeping the race in Rhode Island alive until November.
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Republicans defeated Democrats in the Senate race in Georgia on Tuesday, while the Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Vermont and Indiana, reports reaching here said.
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Sen. Barack Obama won the Wisconsin  vote to pick a U.S. Democratic presidential candidate on  Tuesday, handing rival Hillary Clinton a ninth straight defeat  and leaving her White House ambitions hanging on the upcoming  contests in Texas and Ohio, media projected.
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Republicans were well-positioned to retain narrow control of the Senate as voters went to the polls Tuesday, but with nine races too close to call, Democrats still had a long-shot chance of scoring an upset, political analysts said.
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The Democratic governors in 12 states won by President Bush in November:
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Sen. Barack Obama won the Wisconsin Democratic primary decisively last night, extending his winning streak to nine consecutive contests and dealing another significant blow to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose imperiled presidential candidacy now hangs on the outcome of showdowns in Ohio and Texas...
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Eight weeks after the vote, the secretary of state is set to certify Democrat Christine Gregoire (GREG&#39;-wahr) as the winner. The initial count and a machine recount both gave the win to Republican Dino Rossi.
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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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Rasmussen Reports - Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee (R) has pulled to within two points of challenger Sheldon Whitehouse in his bid for re-election. The latest Rasmussen Reports poll in Rhode Island shows Whitehouse earning support from 44% of voters while Chafee attracts 42%.&nbsp; Whitehouse had a six point lead last month.