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WEDNESDAY MARCH 10
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 2008
quote of the dav
"Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up, Stand up with our president and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will."
John McCain
fact of the day
Kansas has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1964, when it chose Lyndon B. Johnson against Barry Goldwater.
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John Flynn, Wichita freshman, reviews his ballot before voting in his first presidential election Central United Methodist Church. Poll workersat the church, where Flynn and two friends voted Tuesday afternoon, said turnout had been comprised overwhelmingly of young voters.
Sen. Pat Roberts cruises to re-election
ELECTION 2008
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., claims victory during an election night watch party in Topeka on Tuesday. Roberts defeated democratic candidate Jim Slattery, a former 2nd District congressman
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BY CARL MANNING ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA — Republican Sen. Pat Roberts' image as a Kansas political fixture with a record of bringing home federal funds carried him to a comfortable victory Tuesday night over Democrat challenger Jim Slattery.
With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Roberts had 60 percent of the vote.
"It's a great honor. It's a humbling honor," Roberts said. "I'm looking forward to the next six years. My line is 'you ain't seen nothing yet."
Asked if this was his final term, the 72-year-old senator said, "My word, that is six years down the road. I might be playing for the K-State defense."
Roberts was the favorite in a GOP-leaning state where a Democrat hasn't won a Senate race since 1932. He also raised 3 1/2 times as much money as Slattery — more than $5.2 million by mid-October.
"We fought the good fight and came up short," Slattery said. "I congratulate Senator Roberts and his team. They did an outstanding job and won."
Slattery blamed his loss mainly
on being outspent by Roberts.
"The bottom is when you have such a tremendous money advantage, you just can't overcome that. That was the major difference," he said. "I don't anticipate running for public office again."
Roberts pointed to numerous projects for which he helped secure federal dollars, including highway improvements, flood-control projects, a new Command and General Staff College center at Fort Leavenworth and a bioscience center at Kansas State University that bears his name.
But Slattery, a Washington lobbyist and former 2nd District congressman, suggested Roberts was on the wrong side of the biggest issues facing the nation.
Slattery called the Iraq war a "trillion-dollar mistake." Roberts began a four-year stint as Senate Intelligence Committee chairman just before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and he supported the war.
Roberts has worked in Washington for more than four decades,starting as a congressional aide.
He represented the 1st District of western Kansas in the House for 16 years before winning his Senate seat in 1996.
ELECTION 2008
States legalize pot for medical use
BY DAVID CRARY ASSOCIATED PRESS
The marijuana reform movement won two prized victories Tuesday, with Massachusetts voters decriminalizing possession of small amounts of the drug and Michigan joining 12 other states in allowing use of pot for medical purposes. Key ballot measures elsewhere addressed same-sex marriage and abortion.
Henceforth, people caught in Massachusetts with an ounce or less of pot will no longer face criminal penalties. Instead, they'll forfeit the marijuana and pay a $100 civil fine.
Barnstable District Attorney Michael O'Keefe, who led opposition to the measure, called it "bad public policy"
The Michigan measure will allow severely ill patients to register with the state and legally buy, grow and use small amounts of marijuana to relieve pain, nausea, appetite loss and other symptoms.
Similar measures have prevailed previously in 27 states, but none were in California's situation— with thousands of gay couples already married following a state Supreme Court ruling in May.
Of the 153 measures at stake nationwide, the most momentous was a proposed constitutional amendment in California that would limit marriage to heterosexual couples.
The opposing sides together raised about $70 million, much of it from out of state, to wage their campaigns. The outcome, either way, will have a huge impact on prospects for spreading same-sex marriage to the 47 states that do not allow it.
Though Democrat Barack Obama won the presidential race in California on his way to wrapping up his White House bid, the vote on the same-sex marriage amendment was expected to be close.
According to exit polls, blacks were far more likely than whites or Hispanics to support the ban. Age also was a key factor — the exit polls showed voters under 30 opposing the ban by a 2-to-1 ratio, while most voters 60 and older supported the ban.
A crucial question was how churchgoing black and Hispanic voters — presumably a pro-Obama constituency — would vote on the ballot measure.
Both Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, say they oppose same-sex marriage. But Obama, unlike McCain, also opposes the California amendment and endorses the concept of broader rights for same-sex couples.
also were on the ballot in Florida and Arizona. Under Florida law, the measure there needed 60 percent support to be enacted — partial returns showed it to be around that threshold.
Arkansas had a measure that would prohibit unmarried couples from adopting or being foster parents.
Conservatives supporting the measure say it's aimed at same sex couples, who are able to adopt and be foster parents in most states.
South Dakota's ballot included an initiative that would ban abortion except in cases of rape, incest and serious health threat to the mother. A tougher law without the rape and incest exceptions was defeated in 2006.
If it passed, it would likely trigger a legal challenge which could lead to the U.S. Supreme Court and a reconsideration of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established the right to abortion.
Ban-gay-marriage amendments
The conference "Energy, Innovation and the Kansas Economy" will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Adams Alumni Center.
The workshop "Conducting Unclassified & USS Searches" will begin at 9 a.m. in 103B in Carruth-O'Leary Hall.
The University Support Staff Senate Executive Committee Meeting will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "Leadership Great Leaders, Great Teams & Great Results" will begin at 8 a.m. in 204 JRP.
on campus
The lecture "Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of GLBTIQ People in Kansas" will begin at noon in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
The public event "Education Career Fair" will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
The public event "Mark Johnson to present 'Lessons in Leadership' will begin at 3 p.m. in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
The lecture "Political Communications: The Art of the Science or the Science of the Art?" will begin at 4 p.m. In the Dole Institute of Politics.
The student group event "KU Moms Brown Bag Lunch" will begin at noon in Alcove J in the Kansas Union.
The workshop "Research Administration 101: Guide to the Administration of Sponsored Projects at KU" will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Apollo Room in Nichols Hall.
The lecture "University Distinguished Professor Lecture" will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The public event "What's Happening to Our Honey Bees, Bumble Bees and Other Pollinators" will begin at 7 p.m. in Dyche Hall.
The lecture "SUA Presents: Architect Steven Holl" (vouchers required) will begin at 7 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The concert "Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
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