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Daily Archives: November 4th, 2014

Class size initiative too close to call

Excerpt: With 49.5% of the vote, it’s too soon to tell if Ini­tia­tive 1351 will pass. If approved by vot­ers, the ini­tia­tive would low­er pub­lic school class sizes in grades kinder­garten through 12. Washington’s pupil-teacher ratio ranks 47th nation­al­ly, and both the state and nation­al teach­ers unions were the pri­ma­ry sup­port­ers of the campaign. State Super­in­ten­dent […]
Published at:10:03 PM on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Written by:Kathleen Reynolds
Categories:Education
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Initiative 594 leading–Washington just got safer

Excerpt: Own­ing a gun is a big respon­si­bil­i­ty, one which increas­es the risk of sui­cide or homi­cide for gun own­ers and their fam­i­lies. In Wash­ing­ton state, near­ly 6,000 peo­ple were killed with a gun in the last decade. Thank­ful­ly, today Wash­ing­ton vot­ers are mak­ing a deci­sion that will save lives, by pass­ing Ini­tia­tive 594 by a […]
Published at:8:57 PM on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Written by:Kathleen Reynolds
Categories:Elections
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U.S. Senate map looking grim for Democrats; Republicans may end up with the majority

Excerpt: There are still many bal­lots left to count in quite a few places, but the U.S. Sen­ate map is not look­ing good for Democ­rats of this hour. The mass media are pro­ject­ing Repub­li­can vic­to­ries in Iowa and Col­orado — two states that Democ­rats real­ly need­ed to win in order to pro­tect their U.S. Sen­ate majority. […]
Published at:7:44 PM on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Networks project a win for Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire

Excerpt: New Hamp­shire’s Jeanne Sha­heen has won anoth­er term in the U.S. Sen­ate, major news net­works are pro­ject­ing, in what is an incred­i­bly impor­tant Demo­c­ra­t­ic hold. ABC News was the first out of the gate to declare a win for Sha­heen. NBC News/MSNBC fol­lowed suit short­ly thereafter. Sha­heen faced Repub­li­can Scott Brown, who pre­vi­ous­ly served in the […]
Published at:6:08 PM on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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Tom Wolf wins in Pennsylvania as Democrats take back governorship from Republicans

Excerpt: An impor­tant guber­na­to­r­i­al race is now being called in Penn­syl­va­nia for the Democ­rats. Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger Tom Wolf is the pro­ject­ed win­ner, defeat­ing incum­bent Repub­li­can Tom Corbett. Very few bal­lots have been tab­u­lat­ed and report­ed so far, but appar­ent­ly Wolf’s mar­gin of vic­to­ry is sig­nif­i­cant enough that mass media feel com­fort­able call­ing it. Polling showed that Wolf […]
Published at:5:52 PM on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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As expected, networks project victory for Mitch McConnell in Kentucky

Excerpt: Polls in Ken­tucky have now closed, and news net­works are pro­ject­ing that Mitch McConnell has been reelect­ed as Ken­tuck­y’s senior U.S. Sen­a­tor, defeat­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger Ali­son Lun­der­gan Grimes. Grimes raised a lot of mon­ey and ran a cred­i­ble cam­paign in the eyes of many observers, but found going up against “Sen­a­tor Grid­lock” to be an […]
Published at:5:14 PM on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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