Democrats Dominate New York Politics
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Seldom has a national political party held a nominating convention so deep in enemy territory. From the northern Bronx to Brooklyn's Coney Island boardwalk, from eastern Queens to the liberal fortress of Manhattan's Upper West Side, New York City is wall-to-wall Democrats.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a Republican and he's now an independent. But on Thursday he cozied up to the Democrats' biggest star.
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By a wide  margin, Democrats view Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) as the party's candidate best positioned to win the general election, and she holds a double-digit lead over  Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.
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Four high-profile Democrats are running in the Sept. 12 primary to succeed veteran New York Democratic Rep. Major R. Owens in BrooklynÃ¢ÂÂs 11th Congressional District. And they have set up a race so tight that even local political insiders are loathe to predict a winner.
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US primary elections gave Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton a green light for a re-election bid in New York, while a controversial Republican senator in Rhode Island garnered his party's backing.
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Opposition Democrats are reaping a surge in popularity ahead of key US elections next month on the back of a congressional sex scandal that has left Republican leaders realing, according to polls.
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Four days before New York's primary, Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Eliot Spitzer maintain huge leads over their rivals for their party's nominations as she seeks re-election and he tries to become governor, a statewide poll showed Friday.
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Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, is making inroads in Republican strongholds and on traditional Republican issues, according to a new Times/CBS News poll.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Senator Barack Obama and New York Senator Hillary Clinton each claimed victories in two states, according to early network projections, on the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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New York Sen. Hillary Clinton still holds a 20-point lead over her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination but she and Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani are in a dead heat, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday.
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New YorkÃ¢ÂÂs increasing role as a Democratic Party anchor in the Northeast Ã¢ÂÂ its strongest region in the nation Ã¢ÂÂ is much discussed. Still, it has been many years since Empire State Democrats have had as powerful a top-of-the-ticket tandem as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer, the current state attorney general.
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The candidacy of New York AG Eliot Spitzer may help Democrats reclaim the seat from Republicans.
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Democrats captured a traditionally Republican State Senate seat on Long Island, winning the costliest battle for a state legislative seat in New York history.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer officially declared Tuesday what New York&#39;s political establishment has suspected for months: He&#39;ll be a Democratic candidate for governor in 2006.
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Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has more than doubled his lead in the latest voter poll on the Republican presidential nomination, while Senator Barack Obama is closing in on Senator Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side, a new survey showed Thursday.
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Democrats had great success in state legislative races this year, even as they performed poorly in the presidential race and campaigns for Congress. Many Democratic gains came in the heart of Republican territory.
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Hillary Clinton easily wins her Democratic primary in New York, gaining the chance to stand for re-election in November.