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The progressive's demand for a radical rethinking of U.S. energy policy is also complicated by the defeat of an array of climate focused ballot initiatives on Election Day in a couple battleground states, including in Colorado and Arizona (and even in progressive Washington State).

One top Gore adviser said he was concerned that protests by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others in Florida were politicizing a process that needed to be focused on ballot integrity.

He said commissioners have primarily been focused on the ballot question they just approved to see if this is even something that residents want.

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the nation's highest-ranking Republican, did not revoke his endorsement but said on Monday that he would no longer defend his party's standard-bearer and would spend the rest of the election focused on down-ballot races.

The top of the ticket in most places featured races that were not close and the bottom consisted largely of ballot measures focused on nuts-and-bolt spending issues rather than controversial social topics.

"She's a chameleon," said Mr. Huffington, who narrowly lost his Senate race to Dianne Feinstein in 1994 after the news that the Huffingtons had hired an illegal immigrant to care for their children even though Mr. Huffington supported a ballot proposition focused on illegal immigrants.

But in the same election, we had over $200 billion in state and local ballot measures focused on infrastructure.

Dean Cortopassi —the wealthy farmer and food processor who, with his wife, spent $4 million on a petition drive to place the initiative on the ballot — is focused on the state's overall debt rather than any specific project, said a spokesman.

These tiny defects in the punch card ballot system have focused national attention on the design of voting technology.

Much of the attention in this year's All-Star balloting has focused on the race for the American League's starting first baseman.

Invited speaker Richard Winger is the publisher of Ballot Access News, a monthly newsletter widely cited as the foremost U.S. publication focused on issues related to ballot access.