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AUGUSTA, Maine --Republican voters chose Tuesday from among three candidates seeking the GOP nomination for governor, while incumbent Democratic Gov. John Baldacci won his party's nod for a second four-year term. The Republican race featuring Peter Mills, Chandler Woodcock and David Emery generated the bulk of interest in the Blaine House contest. Baldacci faced only token competition from Christopher Miller, a computer specialist from Gray. Unopposed in the Green Independent Party's primary was Pat LaMarche, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1998. Republican voters had to choose their candidate from among two state senators -- Mills and Woodcock -- and...

Wanted: Someone, anyone to run against U.S. Sen. Harry Reid for Senate in 2004. Must be a Republican, preferably rich and willing to spend his or her own money, maybe lots of it. The Nevada Republican Party hasn't yet gotten to that point, but with Monday's formal announcement by U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons that he won't challenge Reid for the senior senator's seat next year, the party has to find someone soon for the job. Who knows? If the candidate has enough gravitas, he may get a nice ride on Air Force One. That Gibbons passed on the race was...

<p>Several possible candidates have emerged in the race to beat Sen. Harry Reid after Republican Congressman Jim Gibbons decided not to run.</p> <p>The first to enter the fray is Richard Ziser, former chairman of the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage. Ziser's group backed an initiative to prohibit Nevada's constitution from recognizing gay marriages, which voters approved in 2002.</p>