After the recent state elections - in three states and one union territory - elected legislators declared that that the average amount of money spent in their campaigns to be only between 39% and 59% of their limits in their official declarations.

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Though elected in 1998 as a self-declared reformer who promised to fix the school system and improve child welfare, Mr Bush is now vulnerable on both counts.

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Though ever more militant, on March 22nd the Kosovo Albanians nonetheless re-elected their pacifist leader, Ibrahim Rugova, as president of their self-declared republic.

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He hasn't declared a candidacy but regularly appears at mayoral forums and speaks about what he would do if New Yorkers elected him to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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