Jindal wins Louisiana governor's race
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U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal won the Louisiana governor's race Saturday, becoming the nation's youngest governor and the first non-white to hold the state's post since Reconstruction.
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ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana  - The primary elections have been called the most gripping in recent years but not in the Deep South state of Louisiana where parties struggled to motivate voters on Saturday.
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  - Republican Bobby Jindal was sworn in on Monday as governor of Louisiana to become the first Indian-American elected head of a U.S. state.
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Renee Montgomery's long-range shooting put an end to Louisiana State's long home winning streak. Montgomery connected from about 25 feet with two minutes left, and again from a couple feet behind the 3-point line with 6.7 seconds to go, lifting No. 5 Connecticut to a 72-71 victory over No. 7 LSU yesterday in Baton Rouge, La.
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India's ruling Congress party won power  in a giant state on Saturday, a victory that would boost the  fortunes of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's party and strengthen  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's minority national coalition.
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Call it a sign of the times for Louisiana's embattled governor: A chance to dine with Gov. Kathleen Blanco fetched a winning bid of $1 at a recent fundraising auction hosted by a group of business leaders.
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One chapter in Washington&#39;s tumultuous governor&#39;s race closed Thursday, when Democrat Christine Gregoire beat Republican Dino Rossi in a statewide hand recount by a razor-thin 130-vote margin.
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Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal's opponents in the state's gubernatorial race hoped Saturday that they could chip away at enough of his lead to push one of them into a runoff with the congressman.
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN  NEW ORLEANS - Call it a sign of the times for Louisiana's embattled governor: A chance to dine with Gov. Kathleen Blanco fetched a winning bid of $1 at a recent fundraising auction hosted by a group of business leaders.
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Republican Dino Rossi was declared the winner of the Washington governor&#39;s race by 42 votes, the closest margin in the state&#39;s history.
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A trickle of voters across southern Louisiana turned out Saturday to settle the last bit of unfinished business from the 2004 election season &#151; runoffs in two bitterly contested U.S. House races.
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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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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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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.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee  won the Louisiana Republican primary on Saturday, notching up  another Southern victory in his bid to become the party's  presidential candidate in the November general election, CNN  projected early Sunday.
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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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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor&#39;s race by a 130-vote margin out of 2.9 million ballots cast, according to final recount results from King County, the last of Washington&#39;s 39 counties to report.