The Aftermath of 9/11.

[NewYorkExpress]

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 had two lasting consequences. First, with the destruction of the World Trade Center, and the attack on the Pentagon, as well as the near attack on either the White House or the Capitol, America became a far less safe place. At least one high profile Republican (Rick Santorum) suggested stripping all Muslims of their citizenship.

Second, the attacks, and the stress coming out of them, proved to be too much for Vice President Dick Cheney, who had had a history of heart attacks. On the night of September 11, Cheney had a massive heart attack, and died, leaving the Vice Presidency temporarily vacant.

Dick Cheney: January 30, 1941-September 11, 2001

[John King wannabe]

Well damn, starting off with a bang.

[Sir Mohamed]

So W appoints a better VP who succeeds him in 2002 after the famous pretzel incident? Curious to see more.

[NewYorkExpress]

So W appoints a better VP who succeeds him in 2002 after the famous pretzel incident? Curious to see more.

Who said I was killing W off? For all you know, he's just not running for reelection in 2004 or something.

[NewYorkExpress]

President Bush's intelligence team told him on the afternoon of September 11, that the attack was almost certainly ordered by Osama Bin Laden, and Al-Qaeda, who were operating from the safety of Afghanistan, controlled by the Taliban.

On September 12, in a Prime Time television address from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, Bush called on the Taliban to surrender all of Al-Qaeda's top leadership to the United States "or else", giving the Taliban until September 21 to respond.

On September 15, the Taliban, through the Qatari Government offered to facilitate the surrender of Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zwahiri, into U.S custody. However, by the time the U.S responded on the morning of the sixteenth, both Bin Laden and al-Zawhiri had escaped into Pakistan's tribal region.

The Taliban's confirmation of Bin Laden and al-Zawhiri's escape left the U.S with a decision on whether to send troops or not. Despite stiff opposition from members of the Cabinet, most notably Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush elected not to send troops, and instead sent the Air Force to perform a bombing run over Kabul as a show of force.

In Pakistan, Bin Laden, and al-Zawahiri's presence in the country quickly turned into a liability once the government figured out they were there, as President Pervez Musharraf depended on United States support and was fearful of the United States electing to support India over Pakistan in a future war between the two.

So, on October, 1, Musharraf ordered the Pakistani Army to take down Bin Laden and al-Zawhiri dead or alive. Finding them in Miranshah, the army detachment killed them both, along with nine civilians who were trying to give them aid.



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Osama Bin Laden: March 1, 1957- October 1, 2001



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Ayman al-Zawhiri: June 19, 1951-October 1, 2001

[NewYorkExpress]

President Bush had to quickly come up with a new nominee for Vice President, and shepard that nominee through both the House and Senate. While Republicans, who controlled the House, seemed willing to approve pretty much anyone Bush nominated, Democrats controlled the Senate following Jim Jeffords's decision to become an Independent and caucus with the Democrats back in June, and at least some Democrats, led by Senators Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy were demanding Bush choose a Democrat as VP. Bush had no interest in kowtowing to them, as this position represented the left wing of the Democratic Party, but he needed a clear majority in both the House and Senate.

By September 14, he had asssembled a shortlist of individuals he was going to interview for the position, with the intention of submitting a name to Congress by the end of the month.

They were:

Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
Secretary of State Colin Powell (R-NY)
Former Senator John Danforth (R-MO)
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY)
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL)
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor (R-AZ)

[NewYorkExpress]

By September 21, President Bush had narrowed down his choice for the next Vice President to three candidates, John Danforth, Colin Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor.

All three had clear political advantages ahead of the 2002 midterms, and clear political disadvantages as well.

Danforth was on President Bush's shortlist in 2000, and was a high-profile politician from a state that was likely to be a battleground, both in the midterms in 2002, and in 2004. However, he hadn't served in elected office since his retirement in the 1994 midterms, and while the most conservative of the three choices was considered unlikely to pick up Democratic votes in the Senate.

Sandra Day O'Connor would make history as the first female Vice President, and would have the additional advantage of opening up a Supreme Court seat, allowing Bush to move the court to the right by appointing a conservative to replace the relatively moderate O'Connor. Given the implications for the Supreme Court, O'Connor was considered unlikely to win Republican support in the House and Senate, but her history making ability would allow Bush to make sizable inroads with the female vote in 2004. There also were questions about whether O'Connor was interested in being Vice President.

Colin Powell, like O'Connor would make history, as the first African-American Vice President. However, being pro-choice and pro-same sex marriage, Powell's nomination would likely lead to a revolt among the Republican base, likely leading to GOP losses in the midterms, let alone in 2004. Powell's nomination would also leave the Secretary of State position open in an important time for Foreign policy. However, his nomination would send a signal that Republicans are willing to compete for the black vote in America, something they hadn't been doing for decades.

Ultimately, on September 25, President Bush announced that Sandra Day O'Connor would be his choice for Vice President. O'Connor quickly cleared the House, with her nomination passing 402-17 on September 29, but she ran into a firewall of opposition from liberal Democrats and Conservative Republicans, as her nomination faced twin filibusters from Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurmond. Ultimately, O'Connor wasn't confirmed by the Senate until November 10, 2001, as following a successful cloture vote the previous day, 65-35, the Senate confirmed her 50-49 (Strom Thurmond voting with the Democrats, John Breaux voting with the Republicans and Jim Jeffords electing to abstain to avoid a tied vote. )



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47th Vice President of the United States: Sandra Day'Connor. November 11, 2001-



President Bush quickly assembled a shortlist of candidates to replace O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

They were:

Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, Third Circuit, Samuel Alito
Former Principal Deputy Solictor General of the United States John Roberts
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales
Attorney General John Ashcroft
Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, Seventh Circuit, Frank Easterbrook
Alabama Attorney General William Pryor

[Independents for Nihilism]

You know, to this day I thought John Danforth and John Ashcroft were the same person. So thank you for getting me to google one of them.

[NewYorkExpress]

The first major elections post September 11 in the United States were the off-year elections of 2001. While President Bush's approval ratings had shot up in the immediate aftermath from the mid 40's to high 60's, the more clear implication was a dramatic drop in approval for Congressional Democrats, which would have dramatic implications, both in the Virginia and New Jersey Gubernatorial races, as well as in several Mayoral elections around the country.

In New Jersey, where acting Governor Donald DiFrancesco was retiring, both as Governor and as a member of the State Senate, polls conducted before 9/11 had shown Woodbridge Township Mayor and 1997 nominee Jim McGreevey holding a double digit lead over Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler. However, polls conducted after September 11, and throughout October showed Schundler not only coming back from the deficit, but completely reversing the margin to take a sizable lead against McGreevey.

New Jersey Governor

Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler (R) 52%
Woodbridge Township Mayor Jim McGreevey (D) 45%
Former State Senator Bill Schluter (I) 2%

In Virginia, polling had indicated a tight race between businessman Mark Warner, the 1996 Senate nominee, and Attorney General Mark Earley before 9/11. However, after 9/11, Earley pulled out to a double digit lead in the polls, which he maintained throughout October. Like in New Jersey, President Bush's improved approvals, and the dramatic drop in approval for Congressional Democrats made this one not close at all, and that was without factoring in that Virginia remained a Republican leaning state.

Virginia-Governor

Attorney General Mark Earley (R) 58%
Businessman Mark Warner (D) 39%
Former Treasurer of Libertarian Party Bill Redpath (L) 3%

In New York City, the Mayoral Election to succeed Rudy Giuliani, polls conducted before the primaries on 9/11 had initially showed a close race. After the primaries, which had been delayed one week to September 18, saw Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer come from behind and win the Democratic Primary, the Republican nominee, businessman Michael Bloomberg began pulling ahead in the polls. Bloomberg did suffer from the fact that he was unable to get the Conservative Party nomination, but he was helped by the fact Ferrer failed to win the nomination of the Working Families Party, as they elected to stick with Mark Green after his primary loss. Here too, the collapse in support for Congressional Democrats hurt Ferrer hard, as did a controversial attack ad aimed at Bloomberg from Ferrer called him "bought and paid for by the Israeli Government", which Ferrer refused to apologize for.

New York City-Mayor


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Michael Bloomberg (R) 49%
Fernando Ferrer (D) 33%
Mark Green (WFP) 9%
Alan Hevesi (Liberal) 5%
Terrence Gray (Conservative) 2%
Bernie Goetz (Fusion) 1.7%

[NewYorkExpress]

President Bush, following the confirmation of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court, took most of November to interview the candidates on his shortlist before narrowing the choices to two names, Alberto Gonzales and Samuel Alito.

Alito had proven himself to be a reliable conservative justice since joining the Third Circuit in 1990 and was well liked by religious conservatives. However, court-watchers were well aware that Chief Justice William Rhenquist's health had been declining, and conservatives wanted Alito to instead be nominated for the Chief Justice's position when it eventually became vacant.

Gonzales was a long time confidant of Bush's from Texas. With the advantage of potentially being the first Hispanic Justice on the Supreme Court, Gonzales had a limited legal background as an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, which made him attractive to some conservatives, because of his lack of a paper trail. Other conservatives, remembering the precedent of David Souter, opposed nominating Gonzales on precisely those grounds.

However, Bush chose to nominate Gonzales, making the announcement official at a press conference on Black Friday at Camp David.

Gonzales quickly made it through his committee hearings, but just like Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination for Vice President, he faced fillibusters from both the left and right. Ted Kennedy mounted his second high-profile nominating fillibuster in as many months, joined by Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum. The nomination narrowly got through a cloture vote by a 60-39   margin on January 6, 2002 (Paul Wellstone was absent), and made it through the Senate by virtue of Vice President O'Connor's tie-breaking vote, as the Senate deadlocked 50-50, with O'Connor breaking the tie to confirm Gonzales.


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Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court: Alberto Gonzales. January 8, 2002-

[NewYorkExpress]

The first legislative priorities for the Bush Administration post 9/11 were passing legislation that would prevent a terrorist attack like September 11 from happening again.

In Late September, House Republicans, at the behest of the White House, submitted legislation called the PATRIOT Act. The legislation would expand surveillance by law enforcement, make interagency communication between law enforcement agencies easier, made terrorism convictions a mandatory federal death penalty, authorized indefinite detentions and the use of torture against terrorism suspects, expressly overturned Gideon v. Wainwright,Miranda v. Arizona and Mapp v. Ohio in terrorism cases, and stripped the Federal Judiciary's ability to hear appeals of terrorism cases.

The legislation was bitterly attacked by Congressional Democrats as overly aggressive and anti-Muslim, but it passed the House on November 15, 2001, and after surviving a filibuster attempt from Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy, passed the Senate, 75-22 on December 9, 2001. President Bush signed the sweeping legislation on December 14, 2001, in a Rose Garden ceremony.

The other big legislative policy achievement Congress was set to pass, was the creation of a new Cabinet Department, the Department of Homeland Security. This Department would be created from twenty-one agencies throughout the federal government, most notably the TSA, FEMA, INS, ICE, Customs and Border Patrol and the Secret Service.

The creation of the new cabinet department passed the House 430-0 on November 18, 2001, and passed the Senate 96-1 on January 6, 2002 (Russ Feingold was the lone no vote).

President Bush had already composed a shortlist for the first Secretary of Homeland Security in advance of the department's creation, and would soon announce the pick. That shortlist was:

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan
Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet
National Security Advisor Condolezza Rice

[NewYorkExpress]

Given he'd had the shortlist in advance, President Bush didn't take long to make a decision about who the first ever Secretary of Homeland Security would be. That person would be Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, John Yoo.

Yoo had written most of the draft legislation on the PATRIOT Act, and was influential in getting a sunset clause, championed by Senators John McCain and Frank Murkowski removed from the bill by threatening that President Bush would veto the PATRIOT Act if any sunset clause or renewal requirements were included. Yoo failed to win approval in committee, but was brought to the floor anyways, as part of a deal between Trent Lott and Tom Daschle in May of 2002 which saw several controversial judicial nominees, most notably Brett Kavanaugh and Harriet Miers (both of whom would have ended up in the District Courts, and whose nominations had become controversial for different reasons. Kavanaugh had been accused of sexual assault by at least one person while he was at high school, while Miers had been criticized for her ties to Bush, as she was currently serving as White House Staff Secretary and her lack of experience as a lawyer) would not receive votes or hearings in the Senate (also included in this deal was the nomination of John Bolton to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, who had become controversial due to his suggestion during the hearings that the U.S should bomb Mecca in retaliation for 9/11. He had gotten through his hearing largely thanks to three Democratic Senators being absent, but the deal between Lott and Daschle meant that he would not receive a vote on the Senate floor).

On the Senate floor Yoo faced a fillibuster from roughly half the Democratic Caucus, led by Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold, which lasted for almost a week. However, the fillibuster broke when multiple Democrats from Republican states facing reelection in 2002 or 2004, led by John Breaux, Mary Landrieu, Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln voted for cloture, allowing Yoo's nomination to advance 61-37. On July 11, 2002, the final vote was held, finishing with Yoo getting through on Vice President O'Connor's tie-breaking vote 50-49 (Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings were both absent).



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First Secretary of Homeland Security; John Yoo, July 12, 2002-

[NewYorkExpress]

Throughout the Spring, and into the Summer of 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil began a wide-ranging investigation into the financing of 9/11. Using documents gained from the capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Rawalpindi in March of 2002, the documents revealed that roughly half of the financing for 9/11 had come from Osama Bin Laden's personal fortune, 20% had come from wealthy private individuals in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and 30% had come directly from the Saudi and Qatar governments.

There was hesitation about what to do going forward about the situation. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld favored a military response, even privately suggesting a bombing run over Mecca as an option. Secretary of State Colin Powell also favored a military response, suggesting that the funding from Saudi Arabia and Qatar for 9/11 would be enough to trigger NATO's Article 5 against the two countries. Others in the Administration, most notably Treasury Secretary O'Neil, newly sworn in Secretary of Homeland Security John Yoo, and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, suggested a combination of punishing sanctions (O'Neil), and a travel ban against anyone traveling from Saudi Arabia or Qatar to the United States (Rice).

Bush ultimately decided against the miltary option. His reasoning largely involved stationing American troops in Saudi Arabia, arguing with Rumsfeld that said troops would sitting ducks for terrorist attacks. Bush instead started by pulling the pending nominations in the Senate of Robert Jordan and Maureen Quinn to be the Ambassadors to Saudi Arabia and Qatar respectively. Bush also, in a televised event with Treasury Secretary O'Neil, as well British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on August 17, 2002 announced that their two countries would be enacting massive sanctions on both Saudi Arabia and Qatar, including humanitarian aid, and called on the rest of NATO to join them. Bush specifically stated that in regards to the sanctions, he was invoking NATO's Article 5 powers.

Bush, later that day, signed an executive order that was a full travel ban on any individual traveling from Saudi Arabia or Qatar to the United States, or any Saudi or Qatari National traveling from a third country to the United States. While some, most notably the ACLU threatened lawsuits, the travel ban received wide support, and the only suit filed, by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, was dismissed by Judge Shira Scheindlin on September 6, 2002.

[NewYorkExpress]

While President Bush had wanted to take up a massive tax cut package, the lack of Republican control of the Senate, plus the small Republican majorities in the House, meant nothing was doing. In fact, other than confirming nominees, homeland security legislation, and the occasional non-controversial legislation Congress was largely silent.

Congressional Democrats did get a big victory on August 6, 2002, over Bush's objections (albeit half-hearted, as the biggest opponent had died on 9/11), when the Senate ratified the Kyoto Protocol 71-20. Nineteen of the twenty votes against were Republicans (the lone Democrat voting against was John Breaux of Louisiana), and the of the nineteen remaining no votes seventeen were from Gulf Coast, Southern or Mountain West states (the exceptions being both of Alaska's Senators, Ted Stevens and Frank Murkowski).

In Minnesota, the death of Senator Paul Wellstone in a plane crash just eleven days before the election. Minnesota Democrats sought to replace Wellstone with former Senator Walter Mondale on the ballot, as per Minnesota Law, but the campaign of the Republican nominee, former Saint Paul Mayor Norm Coleman sued in Minnesota State Court and in Federal Court, stating that the Minnesota law was unconstitutional. The case was thrown out in Minnesota's state court system on October 28, the same day as Wellstone's funeral, but on October 29, Federal Judge James Rosenbaum ruled that the Democratic Party in Minnesota could not replace Wellstone with Mondale because absentee ballots with Wellstone's name on them had already gone out. Rosenbaum made no ruling on the constitutionality of the law, stating that that was an issue for the Minnesota state courts to decide.

[NewYorkExpress]

2002 Midterm Elections

Maine

Governor (Angus King term-limited)


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Former State Representative Peter Cianchette (R) 38%
Representative John Baldacci (D) 33%
State Representative John Michael (I) 26%
Environmentalist Jonathan Carter (G) 3%

R Gain

Senate


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Incumbent Susan Collins (R) 63%
State Senator Chellie Pingree (D) 37%

Second Congressional District (John Baldacci running for Governor)

Businessman, former Olympia Snowe staffer Kevin Raye (R) 50.6%
State Senator Mike Michaud (D) 49.4%

R Gain

Vermont



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Incumbent Howard Dean (D) 52%
Treasurer Doug Racine (R) 46%

New Hampshire

Governor (Jeanne Shaheen running for Senate)


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Former Senator Gordon Humphrey (R) 49%
State Senator Bev Hollingworth (D) 48%
John Babiraz (L) 3%

R Gain

Senate


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Governor Jeanne Shaheen (D) 54%
Incumbent Bob Smith (R) 44%
Ken Blevins (L) 2%

D Gain

Massachusetts

Governor(Acting Governor Jane Swift not running)


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Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party Kerry Healey (R) 52%
Former U.S Secretary of Labor Robert Reich (D) 45%
Internist Jill Stein (Green-Rainbow) 3%

Senate


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John Kerry (D) 95%
Michael Cloud (L) 5%

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I'm the sheer variety in the sizes of these pictures.

[NewYorkExpress]

I'm the sheer variety in the sizes of these pictures.

They're some of the best I could find on a wiki, which means that they are likely to be public domain.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I'm the sheer variety in the sizes of these pictures.

They're some of the best I could find on a wiki, which means that they are likely to be public domain.

Yeah, but you couldn't resize each of them into something reasonable?

[NewYorkExpress]

I'm the sheer variety in the sizes of these pictures.

They're some of the best I could find on a wiki, which means that they are likely to be public domain.

Yeah, but you couldn't resize each of them into something reasonable?

I didn't think any of them were unreasonable, personally. I know I passed on a different photo of Kerry because it was too big.

If this was for my signature, I probably would resize them, as signature photos need to be smaller, but for a TL, as long as the size isn't absurd, I don't see the issue here.

[NewYorkExpress]

2002 Midterm Elections

New York

Governor


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Incumbent George Pataki (R, Conservative) 57%
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo (D, Working Families) 31%
Businessman Tom Golisano (Independence) 6%

First Congressional District


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Incumbent Felix Grucci (R, Conservative) 50%
Professor at LIU Southampton College Tim Bishop (D, Working Families) 47%
Enviornmental Activist Lorna Salzman (G) 3%

R HOLD

Fourth Congressional District

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta (R, Conservative) 49.743%
Incumbent Carolyn McCarthy (D, Working Families) 49.135%
Tim Derham (G) 1.386%

R Gain

New Jersey

Senate

Former Mayor of West Windsor Doug Forrester (R) 53%
Incumbent Robert Torricelli (D) 42%
Elizabeth Macron (Libertarian) 2%
Ted Glick (G) 1%

R Gain

Delaware

Senate


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Incumbent Joe Biden (D) 55%
Businessman and 1996 nominee Raymond Clatworthy (R) 37%
Raymond Buranello (L) 5%
Former Department Store Manager Maurice Barros (Independent) 3%

Pennsylvania

Governor (incumbent Tom Ridge term-limited)


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Representative Pat Toomey (R) 51%
Former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell (D) 46%
Mike Morrill (G) 2%
Ken Krawchuck (L) 1%

R Hold

Sixth Congressional District (Robert Borski retiring)

State Senator Jim Gerlach (R) 55%
Lawyer Dan Wofford (D) 45%

R Hold

Thirteenth Congressional District

Ophthalmologist Melissa Brown (R) 52%
Incumbent Joe Hoeffel (D) 46%
John P. McDermott (Constitution) 2%

R Gain

Fifteenth Congressional District (Incumbent Pat Toomey running for Governor)

State Representative Julie Harhart (R) 59%
State Representative Richard Grucela (D) 41%



Seventeenth Congressional District


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State Senator George Gekas (R) 52%
Incumbent Tim Holden (D) 48%

R Gain

[NewYorkExpress]

2002 Midterm Elections

Maryland

Governor (Paris Glendening term-limited)



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Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D) 51%
Representative Bob Ehrlich (R) 48%

D Hold

Eighth Congressional District



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Incumbent Connie Morella (R) 50.64%
State Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) 49.36%

R Hold

Virginia

Senate


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Incumbent John Warner (R) 59%
Former Governor Gerald Bailes (D) 39%
Libertarian Activist Jacob Hornberger (I) 2%

West Virginia

Senate

State Delegate Bill Anderson (R) 50.4%
Incumbent Jay Rockefeller (D) 49.6%

R Gain

North Carolina

Senate (Jesse Helms retiring)


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Former White House Chief of Staff Erksine Bowles (D) 49%
Former Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole 48%
Pizza Deliveryman Sean Haugh (L) 3%

D Gain

[NewYorkExpress]

2002 Midterm Elections

South Carolina

Governor


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Representative Mark Sanford (R) 55%
Incumbent Jim Hodges (D) 45%

Senate (Strom Thurmond retiring)


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Representative Lindsey Graham (R) 63%
State Representative Lonnie Hosey (D) 34%
Ted Adams (Constitution) 3%

Fifth Congressional District

State Senator Harvey Peeler Jr. (R) 49%
Incumbent John Spratt (D) 46%
Doug Kendall (L) 5%

R Gain

Georgia

Governor


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State Senator Sonny Perdue (R) 54%
Incumbent Roy Barnes (D) 43%
Garrett Michael Hayes (Libertarian) 3%

R Gain

Senate


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Representative Saxby Chambliss (R) 57%
Incumbent Max Cleland (D) 39%
Claude Thomas (Libertarian) 4%
R Gain

Third Congressional District (Saxby Chambliss running for Senate)

Businessman Calder Clay (R) 52%
Former Macon Mayor Jim Marshall (D) 48%

R Hold

[NewYorkExpress]

2002 Midterm Elections

Florida

Governor



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Incumbent Jeb Bush (R) 58%
Former U.S Attorney General Janet Reno (D) 41%
Gay Rights Activist Bob Knust (No Party Affiliation) 1%

Fifth Congressional District


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State Senator Ginny Brown-Waite (R) 51%
Incumbent Karen Thurman (D) 43%
Financial Consultant Jack Gargan (Independent, supported by Reform Party) 4%
Activist Brian Moore (Independent) 3%

R Gain

Alabama

Governor


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Representative Bob Riley (R) 59%
Incumbent Don Siegelman (D) 39%
Economist John Sophocleous (Libertarian) 2%

R Gain

Senate


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Incumbent Jeff Sessions (R) 62%
Auditor Susan Parker (D) 37%
Jeff Allen (Libertarian) 1%

Fifth Congressional District

Electrical Contractor Micky Hammon (R) 47%
Incumbent Bud Cramer (D) 46.8%
Alan Barksdale (Libertarian) 6.2%

R Gain

Mississippi

Senate


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Incumbent Thad Cochran (R) 55%
Former Governor Ray Mabus (D) 42%
Shawn O'Hara (Reform) 3%

Third Congressional District

Incumbent Chip Pickering (R) 59%
Incumbent Ronnie Shows (D) 36%
Brad McDonald (Libertarian) 2%
Carroll Grantham (Reform) 2%
Jim Giles (Independent) 1%

R Gain

Fourth Congressional District

State Senator Billy Hewes (R) 50%
Incumbent Gene Taylor (D) 47%
Wayne Parker (Libertarian) 2%
Thomas Huffmaster (Reform) 1%

R Gain

Tennessee

Governor (Don Sundquist term-limited)



Representative Van Hilleary (R) 52%
Former Nashville Mayor, 1994 nominee Phil Bredesen (D) 47%
Basil Marceaux (I) 0.6%
John Jay Hooker (I) 0.4%

R Hold

Senate (Fred Thompson retiring)



Representative Harold Ford Jr. (D) 50%
Former Governor Lamar Alexander (R) 49%
Connie Gammon (I) 1%

D Gain

Fourth Congressional District (Van Hilleary running for Governor)

State Senator Janice Bowling (R) 53%
State Senator Lincoln Davis (D) 45%
Bert Mason (I) 2%

R Hold

Ninth Congressional District (Harold Ford Jr. Running for Senate)

Memphis City Councilman Myron Lowrey (D) 88%
Tony Rush (I) 12%

D Hold

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2002 Midterm Elections

Kentucky

Senate


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Incumbent Mitch McConnell (R) 63%
Former Representative Tom Barlow (D) 37%

Third Congressional District


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Kentucky Cabinet Official Jack Conway (D) 50.56%
Incumbent Anne Northrup (R) 49.44%

D Gain

Fourth Congressional District


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Businessman Geoff Davis (R) 49%
Incumbent Ken Lucas (D) 48%
John Grote (L) 3%

R Gain

Ohio

Governor

Incumbent Bob Taft (R) 53%
Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan (D) 33%
John Eastman (I) 14%

Seventeenth Congressional District

State Representative Tim Grendell (R) 55%
Incumbent James Traficant (D) 45%

R Gain

Indiana

Second Congressional District (Incumbent Tim Roemer retiring)


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Former Undersecretary of Agriculture for Rural Development Jill Long Thompson (D) 48%
Businessman and Lawyer Chris Chocola 47.9%
Sharon Metheny (L) 4.1%

D Hold

Ninth Congressional District



Businessman Mike Sodrel (R) 53%
Incumbent Baron Hill (D) 46%
Jeff Melton (G) 0.6%
Al Cox (L) 0.4%

R Gain

Michigan

Governor (incumbent John Engler term-limited)



Attorney General Jennifer Granholm (D) 52%
Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus (R) 46%
Douglas Campbell (G) 1%
Joseph Pilchak (Constitution) 1%

D Gain

Senate



Incumbent Carl Levin (D) 60%
State Representative Rocky Raczowski (R) 39%
Doug Dern (Natural Law) 1%

Tenth Congressional District (David Bonior running for Governor)

Secretary of State Candice Miller (R) 65%
Macomb County Circuit Judge Carl Marlinga (D) 34%
Renae Coon (I) 1%

R Gain

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2002 Midterm Elections

Illinois

Governor (George Ryan not running for reelection)

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas (D) 52%
Attorney General Jim Ryan (R) 45%
Cal Skinner (L) 3%

D Gain

Senate


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Incumbent Dick Durbin (D) 59%
State Representative Jim Durkin (R) 40%
Steven Burgauer 3%

Nineteenth Congressional District


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Incumbent John Shimkus (R) 59%
Incumbent David Phelps (D) 41%

R Gain

Wisconsin

Governor


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Incumbent Scott McCallum (R) 49%
Attorney General Jim Doyle (D) 48.75%
Tomah Mayor Ed Thompson (L) 2%
Jim Young (G) 0.25%

R Hold

Minnesota (Jesse Ventura retiring)

Governor


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State Representative Tim Pawlenty (R) 56%
State Senator Roger Moe (D) 30%
Former Representative Tim Penny (Independence) 26%

R Gain

Senate


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Former Saint Paul Mayor Norm Coleman (R) 55%
Incumbent Paul Wellstone (D) 37%
Jim Moore (Independence) 18%

R Gain

Second Congressional District


Retired Marine Corps Colonel John Kline (R) 57%
Incumbent Bill Luther (D) 42%
Samuel Garst (No New Taxes) 1%

R Gain

Seventh Congressional District

Carpenter Steve Green (R) 50.5%
Incumbent Collin Petersen (D) 49.5%

R Gain

Eighth Congressional District

State Representative Bud Nornes (R) 50.089%
Incumbent James Oberstar (D) 49.911

R Gain