Indian-American Congressman Elected Louisianaâs Governor
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Bobby Jindal, a conservative Republican congressman from the New Orleans suburbs, inherits a state that was suffering well before Hurricane Katrina.
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When Louisiana held its congressional elections two years ago, both parties canvassed for voters in the traditional way, dropping a pair of volunteers at one end of a block so they could work door-to-door to the other end. The system was as thorough as a census.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 10 -- Rep. William J. Jefferson may be a pariah in some Washington political circles, but voters in this storm-battered city weighed in over the weekend with their own verdict regarding their scandal-plagued congressman: He's still our guy.
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Rep. David Vitter became the first Louisiana Republican elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, vanquishing four Democrats on Tuesday to capture the seat outright.
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India's ruling Congress party won power  in a giant state on Saturday, a victory that will boost the  fortunes of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's party and strengthen  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's minority national coalition.
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Democratic Attorney General Christine Gregoire celebrated Thursday as Washington&#39;s governor-elect and pledged to unite residents divided by
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco went to New Orleans last August to oversee the opening of the city's first housing-assistance center aimed at people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. "This is not just a real estate transaction, but an emotional transaction as...
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OLYMPIA, Wash. Dec 30, 2004 - After three vote tallies and 58 days of waiting, Democrat Christine Gregoire was declared Washington&#39;s governor-elect on Thursday.
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The US state of Louisiana elects Bobby Jindal as its first non-white governor since the 1870s.
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A state judge ruled Monday that the sign-up period should be reopened for the Nov. 2 election in Louisiana's 5th Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Rodney Alexander infuriated Democrats by switching to the Republican Party minutes before the qualifying deadline.
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Fully one dozen candidates filed to challenge embattled Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson in LouisianaÃ¢ÂÂs 2nd District, which under the stateÃ¢ÂÂs unique electoral system will hold a single-ballot, all-candidate primary election Nov. 7 Ã¢ÂÂ the date on which the congressional general elections will be held in states and districts elsewhere across the country.
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New Orleans area 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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The tribe that shared in the first Thanksgiving celebration received federal recognition Thursday as a sovereign American Indian nation, 32 years after it began its quest.
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An election victory by the governing Congress Party in India&#39;s second-most-populous state on Saturday was expected to strengthen both the party and the minority
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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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ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana  - The U.S. 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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The FBI&#039;s weekend search of the House office of a Louisiana Democrat under investigation for bribery may have overstepped Constitutional boundaries, House leaders said as the congressman under investigation pledged to stay in office.