John H Cox

During the presidential frenzy that descends upon this farmland state every four years, Mary Ann Corrigan has met Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan -- and way too many also-rans to name. Now, blissfully minding her own business at the Machine Shed restaurant, the 72-year-old retired farmer is about to meet John H. Cox.

During the presidential frenzy that descends upon this farmland state every four years, Mary Ann Corrigan has met Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan -- and way too many also-rans to name. Now, blissfully minding her own business at the Machine Shed restaurant, the 72-year-old retired farmer is about to meet John H. Cox.

-- -- -- Statewide -- -- DEMOCRATIC Hillary Clinton 2,128,763 52 Barack Obama 1,731,893 42 John Edwards 169,602 4 Dennis Kucinich 20,134 1 Bill Richardson 16,941 1 Joe Biden 15,436 0 Chris Dodd 6,723 0 Mike Gravel 6,661 0 REPUBLICAN John McCain 985,284 42 Mitt Romney 801,317 34 Mike Huckabee 272,591 12 Rudy Giuliani 115,651 5 Ron Paul 99,470 4 Fred Thompson 45,775 2 Duncan Hunter 12,208 1 Alan Keyes 9,538 0 Tom Tancredo 3,299 0...

Statewide Orange County Riverside County -- Los Angeles County State Assembly Member District 55 -- -- Warren Furitani (D) 15,182 69 Herb Peters (Lib) 3,443 16 Charlotte S. Gibson (AI) 3,370 15 -- -- Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District Measure -- -- 41% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- V -- School improvement bond Requires 55% vote Yes 340 46 No 404 54 -- -- Downey Measure -- -- 61% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- G -- Term limits Yes 3,818 32 No 8,155 68 -- -- Huntington Park Measure -- -- 33% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- B -- Communications users tax Yes 1,253 79 No 332 21 -- -- Inglewood Measure -- -- 26% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- F -- Prohibition on fireworks Yes 2,561 46 No 3,066 54 -- -- Long Beach Community College District Measure -- -- 38% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- E -- School improvement bond Requires 55% vote Yes 26,763 74 No 9,384 26 -- -- Los Angeles Measure -- -- 17% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- S -- Reduction of tax rate Yes 88,566 66 No 45,494 34 -- -- Pasadena Measure -- -- 9% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- D -- Utility users tax continuation Yes 3,575 62 No 2,204 38 -- -- Redondo Beach Unified School District Measure -- -- 33% precincts reporting Votes % -- -- C -- School improvement...

ames, iowa -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney handily won a Republican presidential straw poll here on Saturday, while the dark-horse candidacy of ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee got a lift from a surprisingly strong second-place finish. With three of the party's best-known White House contenders skipping the mock election, the Ames contest was a highly imperfect test of the Republican field. In Romney's case, the symbolic victory reflected, more than anything, his heavy spending in Iowa.