Washington Calmly Awaits New Governor
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With the Republican holding a margin of fewer than 100 votes, officials counted several thousand final ballots Wednesday to determine who will be Washington state's next governor.
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Sen. John Kerry has a lot of worries in the closing days of the presidential election, but Washington state is not one of them.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire finished 130 votes ahead in the roller-coaster Washington governor&#39;s race after results of a hand recount including disputed ballots were released Thursday by King County.
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Washington Democrat Christine Gregoire was declared winner of the governor&#39;s race by 129 votes, continuing the party&#39;s two-decade hold on the office after a recount of votes that reversed a Republican victory.
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Secretary of State Sam Reed certified Washington&#39;s Governor race, making Democrat Chris Gregoire the controversial comeback winner over Dino Rossi.
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Tim Johnson of South Dakota undergoes emergency brain surgery, as Washington waits for a prognosis that could affect the balance of power
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It was sudden, but certainly no surprise. The state&#39;s attorney general, who has long been talking about a run for governor, has made his candidacy official.
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Washington voters have the opportunity to make sweeping changes in District leadership for the first time in a decade, taking the first step toward selecting a new mayor and council chairman and at least three new council members in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
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Lawmakers are gathering at their state capitols this week, with some new faces in the crowd and big decisions looming on taxes, schools, health care and crime &#151; not to mention a minefield of cultural disputes such as gay marriage and the moral beliefs of pharmacists.
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Never in Washington state has a governor's race been so close.
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Lame-duck Gov. Gary Locke may not be limping off into the sunset. If the slugfest between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregoire doesn't produce a new governor by the scheduled Jan. 12 inauguration, Locke may have to stick around.
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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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â¢ Thomas Boswell: In the coming days, Washington and its disingenuous DC Council must make a simple decision. â¢ Michael Wilbon: Now is not the time for Linda Cropp to show the city how tough she is.
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OLYMPIA, Washington The chairman of the Washington State Democratic Party says that recount results from King County give his party&#39;s candidate an eight-vote victory in the closest governor&#39;s race in state history.
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While Tyrone Willingham was being introduced as Washington&#39;s 22nd football coach yesterday, Lorenzo Romar leaned against a wall and took the scene in, knowing that reporters would shortly drift his way with a predictable array of questions.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire, the three-term state attorney general who fought America&#39;s tobacco industry, Internet porn and schoolyard bullying, becomes Washington&#39;s governor-elect on Thursday, by a scant 129 votes out of more than 2.8 million cast.
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Fifty-eight days after the election, Christine O. Gregoire was declared the governor-elect of Washington on Thursday, the official winner by an infinitesimal margin after two recounts in a historically close race.