Democrats, unions cheered by election results

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Source: Reuters

Democrats, unions cheered by election results

By Mary Wisniewski
COLUMBUS, Ohio | Tue Nov 8, 2011 10:13pm EST
(Reuters) - Democrats and unions got good election news on Tuesday as Kentucky's Democratic governor won re-election and a controversial anti-union measure championed by Republicans in Ohio went down to defeat.

The local elections were the last before voters go to the polls early next year in state primaries and caucuses to pick a Republican challenger to face President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the November 2012 presidential contest.

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, a folksy moderate Democrat, cruised to victory as expected with about 56 percent of the vote over a Republican and an Independent candidate.

In Ohio, a key swing state won by President Barack Obama in the 2008 election, a strong push by organized labor succeeded in turning back a Republican effort to reduce the power of public sector unions in the state.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/09/us-usa-election-idUSTRE7A73C320111109

[freshwest]

1. More good news, thanks kpete.

[tridim]

2. Suck it McConnel.

Suck it teabaggers.

America hates you.

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