Menendez Projected Winner
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has been projected by CNN to defeat GOP challenger Tom Kean Jr. The lawmaker has been relatively quiet on high-tech issues but weighed in this summer on the ongoing probe of corporate executives whose stock options allegedly were backdated to increase their financial value. He said the backdating scandal was not a victimless crime because it harmed investors who may not have known about such insider deals.
In October, Menendez said results of a security exercise conducted by the Transportation Security Administration were "chilling." The findings indicated undercover American agents successfully smuggled firearms, fake explosives and other illegal items onto airplanes at Newark Liberty Airport 20 out of 22 times.
Meanwhile, CNN is also forecasting that that Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland will win the Ohio gubernatorial race over Republican Ken Blackwell, the Ohio secretary of state. Strickland would replace outgoing GOP Gov. Bob Taft. Lefty bloggers at the CNN party rejoice.
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