The same was true Wednesday.
Dawn broke with clear sailing for the long-expected presidential bid of US Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, after the former first lady trounced a little-known Republican challenger to win re-election with 67 per cent of the vote.
A potential intra-party rival, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, cruised to an even easier re-election. A fluent Spanish speaker with partly Mexican-American heritage, Richardson is expected to try to tap into the country's Latin American constituency. In the 1990s, he served Hillary's husband, former president Bill Clinton, as ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary.
In the last week before the election the 2004 Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was not up for re-election, might have hurt his chances to again run for president through a joke of his own.
Eight days before the election, Kerry made what he claimed was a bungled joke that eager Republicans interpreted as an insult to US troops in Iraq. His comment and initial refusal to apologize created a distraction that angered many fellow Democrats.
On the Republican side, US Senator John McCain of Arizona was not up for re-election. Another Republican presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, did not run for re-election, and Democrats easily captured his office. Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, hailed for his leadership after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the city, has held no elected office for five years.
In other races of interest, the US elected its first Muslim Congressman, a popular California governor was re-elected and a sex scandal cost Republicans a once-safe Florida seat.
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger convincingly won re- election Tuesday, as voters in the left-leaning state backed the moderate policies that had put him at odds with his own national Republican Party. After pursuing a confrontational agenda in 2005 that saw his approval ratings plummet, he rebuilt his popularity by tacking sharply toward the centre, cooperating with Democratic legislators to pass state laws on the environment, gun control and minimum wage.
- Republican Congressman Mark Foley was considered safe for re- election until revelations in September that he had exchanged sexually explicit text messages with teenaged boys who had served as congressional pages. Foley promptly resigned his seat, came out of the closet as a homosexual and sought treatment for alcoholism.
Florida Republicans quickly named a new candidate, but could not remove Foley from the ballot, so that votes for Foley would count as votes for his stand-in. The previously little-fancied Democrat won 50 per cent to 48 per cent for Foley's replacement.
- Democrat Keith Ellison, an African-American convert to Islam, handily won a seat in Congress from the north-central state of Minnesota. He is the first Muslim ever elected to the US House of Representatives.
- Jack Carter, son of former president and Nobel peace laureate Jimmy Carter, lost a bid to unseat Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada.
- Senator Robert Byrd, 88, a Democrat from West Virginia easily won re-election to another six-year term, after having already spent 47 years in the upper chamber.
- Senator Joseph Lieberman, who had lost his bid for the Democratic nomination largely because of his support for the Iraq war, was re-elected on Tuesday running separately from his party.
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