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| | USNews.com: The National Interest: The election results (11/9/05) |
 | | If one party wins both elections, its spin doctors claim that they are a verdict on the national administrationup if the national party's candidates win, down if (as in such elections going back now to 1989) the national party's candidates lose. |
 | | Democrats, after their victories in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, are arguing that these results, together with the national polls, show a repudiation of the Bush administration. |
 | | Turnout in Virginia, with 99.67 percent of precincts reporting, was up 4 percent as against 2001 in a state where turnout increased in 2004 as compared with 2000 by 17 percent and in which population, according to census estimates, increased 5 percent in 2000-04. |
| www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/baroneblog/columns/barone_051109.htm (557 words) |
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