Democrat Dawn DeSart, a 55-year-old journalist from Aurora
In one of the state's most watched races,
Democrat Kevin De Leon lost to long-serving incumbent
Democrat Sen.
HD-52: Republican Cynthia Flores and
Democrat James Talarico are competing to replace ex-state Rep.
| Almondbury: Tricia Moores: Green Party Alison Munro: Liberal
Democrats Louise Peace: Labour Clive Walton: Conservative *Seat currently held by Lib Dem Linda Wilkinson who is stepping down.
Howard Dean called
Democrats cowards for shying away from their progressive ideals.
Incumbent
Democrat Arnie Roblan was leading challenger R.
James Kemp Hannon, senator (
democrat) from New York.
Peter Millea (Liverpool Council, Liberal
Democrat) Abstained
Jacobson has deep ties to the New
Democrat movement that helped bring Bill Clinton to power in 1992.
AACC is among the higher ed groups cheering that potential move and promising to pressure
Democrats to make good on the promise.
It wasn't that voters didn't want to close the border, the hard-liners assert, it was that voters who wanted to do that were distracted by anger over the war in Iraq and other issues, and voted for
Democrats anyway.