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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
CNN projects: Patrick to become Massachusetts' first black governor
(CNN) -- CNN projects that Democrat Deval Patrick will win the governor's race in Massachusetts, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey.
Republican Gov. Mitt Romney is not running for re-election, so this represents a Democratic pickup. Patrick, an assistant attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department, ended the GOP's 16-year lock on the governorship, a politically anomaly in the Democratic stronghold. Patrick will become the Bay State's first black governor, and only the second elected nationally since Reconstruction. Full Massachusetts results |
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