Dixon wins Baltimore mayoral primary
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Sheila Dixon, the first black woman to serve as mayor of Baltimore, all but guaranteed herself an extended stay in office with a resounding victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
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Mitt Romney grabs lifeline in Republican race after scoring first major primary win
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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.
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Choosing a wealthy retired businessman over an openly gay city councilman, voters elected Tom Leppert as Dallas mayor Saturday by a wide margin.
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MANCHESTER, N.H  - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday, a huge victory that bolstered her shaken bid for the party's presidential nomination after a stinging third place loss in Iowa last week, NBC projected.
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The City Council certified the results of a hotly contested mayoral election on Wednesday, and Mayor Dick Murphy was sworn in for a second term.
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Adrian Fenty, a 35-year-old city   council member, easily won Washington's Democratic nomination   for mayor on Tuesday, virtually guaranteeing him the job in the   biggest shake-up in local politics in nearly a decade.
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) yesterday for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he said Obama was the only candidate who had sought his support.
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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.
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Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially-charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak won the primary for head of Israel's dovish Labor Party, officials said early Wednesday, in a race between two ex-military officers who had both called on Israel's current leader to resign.
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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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A leftist rival of Colombia's President Uribe is elected Bogota mayor as local polls pass off largely peacefully.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Arizona Sen. John McCain won the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday, a huge boost to his bid for the U.S. presidential nomination just months after his campaign was being written off as a lost cause.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley, reelected Tuesday in a landslide, overcame little-known opponents and whiffs of scandal.
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The radical Islamic Hamas movementdid well in the first round of the Palestinian municipal elections,official results which was announced in Ramallah on Sunday showed.
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Barack Obama won the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night