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Florida Senator:
Congressman Electionsguy (R) - 58.2%
Former Congressman TNF (D) - 39.5%

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Washington Gubernatorial Primary

Congressman TheCranberry (D) - 55.3%
Attorney General butafly (D) - 42.2%
Others - 2.5%

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Tennessee Democratic Primary:
Tennessee House Speaker Scott - 59.2%
Former Senator Malcolm X - 40.8%

Senator Al Gore left the senate to become Vice President, and Tennessee House Speaker Scott was poised to win the nomination. And he was a good candidate for the general: combining fiscally moderate tendencies and a religious background, he connected with white voters very well and polled very well in the general. However, Former Senator of Illinois and son of civil rights leader Malcolm X (Jr.) ran a heated campaign, running on liberal politics, swinging on his pro-drug war policies for electibility, and having heavy backing from the Memphis black population. Malcolm X came a lot closer than he was expected to, but Scott had the Democratic establishment on his side from the beginning.

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OK-1 2006:

Oil Businessman Malcolm Xanders - 51.2%
Congressman Collin "Mad man" Motley - 46.8%
Others - 2.0%

Collin Motley, a freshman Congressman, elected in a landslide after beating Incumbent Congressman John Sullivan in the primary, proved to be a very controversial figure. He voted against farm subsidies, spending that would've gone to his district, announced in favor of Gay Marriage, and stood against a ramping up of the drug war by the Bush administration, making him very unpopular in his district. Running against him is Oilman Malcolm Xanders, running on farm programs, the drug war, and education, and Xanders won by a surprisingly high margin. Xanders would go on to win re-election very narrowly in 2008 against the State Senator Riley Keaton, and lose in a landslide to the same State Senator in 2010.

Well, whatever, I accidently did my old state.

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California's Gubernatorial race turned out to be not so competitive this year. From the jungle primary, Controller Quigley "Oak" Hills rose through the ranks, a populist who rallies against polluters and Wall Street. He's called "Oak" because he stands in front of Oak Trees in all of his ads. He faces State Senator Cedric Pire, a staunch libertarian who narrowly upset the more moderate Richard "Mr. GOP" Rockefeller. Hills wiped the floor with Pire.

Controller Quigley "Oak" Hills (D) - 57.1%
State Senator Cedric Pire (R) - 42.9%

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California Gubernatorial Jungle Primary
Governor Jerry Brown (D) - 46.2%
Businessman Robert Fayette (R) - 27.8%
State Representative Stanley "Milo" Williams (R) - 19.1%
Others - 6.9%

In state Republicans originally felt comfortable running black Republican Stanley "Milo" Williams. He was suitable conservative on fiscal issues, while holding a level of sanity, and backed off most of the social issues and proved his enviormental issues to where the party felt he could defeat Jerry Brown. Williams did have a problem though - his fundraising was weak, and as a result, head to head polls showed Brown, a popular Governor, with a hearty lead.

This left an opening for the Republicans, and they recruited multi-billionaire Robert Fayette. Fayette actively angered the base - pro-hate crime law, pro-choice, general moderate on fiscal issues and refused to sign the Norquist pledge, but Fayette also actively maintained that he was the candidate who could win, thanks to his millions of dollars of ads for himself and a clean Government image.

Fayette upset the favored Williams, and would go on to face Governor Jerry Brown in a very contentious election.