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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Does anyone know if Louisiana has a governor, these days?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Don’t be lulled into a sense of complacency with the news that Colorado has a Democrat governor and a Democrat legislature.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Speaking of racist politicians, in a fit of random wikipediaing I discovered that Massachusetts had a Know – Nothing governor, Henry Gardner.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Arizona has a very popular Democratic Governor and more Congressional Democrats than Republicans.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Wisconsin’s Governor, Jim Doyle, for example, summed it up well for us in describing the decision to keep his state out of the program:?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
After our current Illinois Governor and key SoetorObama surrogate Rod Blagojevich is indicted (possibly by the end of the year), and all the political fallout settles, we expect Lisa Madigan to be governor here in 2010.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Alaska had a Republican governor.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
That statement is no longer operative, Mississippi has a Republican governor and two Republican senators.
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In Wikipedia:
Arizona has had more female governors than any other U.S. state.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
One thing is for sure and that is that even though New Orleans has the same mayor, Louisiana has a new Governor (Bobby Jindal) and he’s not going to make the mistakes of the past gov!
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
To be sure, during the early 1990s, when Palin was a member, Alaska did have a governor, Wally Hickel, from the same party but who didn’t endorse that plank, but she recently sent the party a friendly message, saying’ ’ we have a great promise to be a self-sufficient state’ ’.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Mayor Ray Nagin is executing the disaster preparedness plan and Louisiana has a more competent governor.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
WA has had Democratic governors since 1992?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The 44 – year – old Republican, Alaska’s first female governor, arrived at the Capitol in 2006 on an ethics reform platform after defeating two former governors in the primary and general elections.
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In Wikipedia:
President Bush won Montana by more than 20 points in both 2000 and 2004, but Montana also has a popular Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, and a newly elected Democratic junior senator, Jon Tester.
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In Wikipedia:
Though Alabama has had a female governor, Baxley is the first woman to hold the state’s office of lieutenant governor.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
But RI also has a Republican governor.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
governor of alaska governor of alaska sarah palin McCain taps Alaska governor for VP (4:44 p. m governor of alaska sarah palin.).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The Saddleback Church pastor tells a Los Angeles radio station the Alaska Governor called him Thursday, he asked how he could pray for her.
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