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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Preliminary results so far of Senate races held Tuesday in the United States showed a tie between Republicans and Democrats, with each side winning five states.
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Referendums that would ban same-sex marriage were approved in all 11 states where they were on the ballot yesterday. Although both President
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United States President George Bush completed his re-election triumph Friday by winning the final undeclared state and starting the job of choosing key members of his new administration.
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Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who flirted with changing political parties in the wake of President Bush's re-election victory, says he will stay in the GOP.
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The latest results from The Associated Press in states voting in presidential contests Tuesday.
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US President George W. Bush won another four-year term in office on Wednesday after Senator John Kerry conceded defeat. The challenger said there would not be enough uncounted ballots in Ohio to shift the
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The Democratic governors in 12 states won by President Bush in November:
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Moderate GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island faces a serious challenge Tuesday as the last big flurry of primary elections provides another test of the depth of anti-incumbent sentiment and the erosion of the political middle ground.
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On Feb. 9, three states and one territory hold Democratic contests with 161 delegates at stake. Three states hold Republican contests with 74 delegates up for grabs.
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Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by 130 votes 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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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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Barack Obama beat Hillary Rodham Clinton in contests in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington State as Mike Huckabee showed that he is still attracting Republican voters.
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A controversial California ballot measure that would fund a decade of stem cell research with &#36;3 billion in state money was headed for a resounding victory on Wednesday, initial returns showed.
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By ROBERT THOMPSON, The Washington Post News service  Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who has bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton beat back a strong challenge from Barack Obama on Tuesday to win her adopted state, and Sen. John McCain defeated Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to claim all of New York's Republican delegates.
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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