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Show r7N Jvx U'nV V i UA T ':Jt7t ELECTION RESULTS 99 of precincts reporting GOVERNOR Mike teavitt U.S. SENATE 318,495 Stewart Hanson (D) 174.636 Merrill Co (l 253,800 0ther3 7,807 (R) V Wayne Owens (D) Robert Bennett (R) Others ATTORNEY GENERAL Scott Bums (R) Jan Graham Others (D) U.S. HOUSE V 417,993 37,075 A 360,161 - ft - f E4 M 1 . r ' "I :;v;: V I t V U.S. HOUSE -- 2ND DISTRICT Karen Shepherd (D) 127.543 V Enid Greene (R) 118,013 Others 6.909 STATE TREASURER STATE AUDITOR 433,958 259,023 V 313,640 351,337 46,522 ArtMonson(D) Ed Alter (R) Others INITIATIVES Proposition 1: Amends Utah Constitution to clarify legislative terms ot office, the start of the legislative session and limit time to V - r I i ' I i :: For 492,494 Against 183,998 V 2: Amends Utah Constitution For. 477,854 V to prohibit monopolies, delete provisions regulating corporations, etc. For; 486,463 i i X4 t n Against: 198,372 Proposition 3; Amends Utah Constitution to allow the governor and Judicial branches to appoint their own legal counsel, change title of Board of Pardons and set public f,Js f i address vetoes. Proposition f - 3RD DISTRICT Orton (D) 131,584 Richard Harrington (R) 82,072 Others 9,472 V U.S. HOUSE 1ST DISTRICT James Hansen (R) 159,801 V Ron Holt (D) 68,547 Others 16,462 Harold Black (D) t 300,111 Bill 355,180 17,471 Tom Allen (R) J I ( ' ; v.. : . .... r- MAii Uj V Against: 285.177 officials' compensation, Initiative A: Allows voters in each county to hold majority vote election to establish parimutuel wagering on horse races in that county and to create a state racing commission. For: 293,806 Against: 447,426 V I Tom NormanDaily Herald Utah maintains Republican image was gracious in defeat. "1 shot myself in the foot," said Owens, blaming 20 points in the polls he believes he lost over his involvement in the House banking scandal. "I like to campaign. I guess I do that better than I do winning statewide elections." In giving a defeated George Bush the small solace of the By VERN ANDERSON Associated Press Writer. - SALT LAKE CITY The largest electorate in Utah history maintained its conservative bent, putting new Republican faces in the U.S. Senate and governor's chair. But a pair of tenacious Democratic women bucked the GOP tide. With 82 percent of some 900,000 registered voters casting ballots Tuesday, Mike Leavitt came out on top of a three-wa- y scramble for the gov- ernor's chair left open by retiring Republican Norm - Bangerter. insur; Leavitt; a ance executive and Bangerter's .protege, will be the state's 14th chief executive and ever. "The sun and the moon and the stars lined up," Leavitt said. "I am raring to go. The high point will be when I wake .up tomorrow and think it really happened." Olene Walker, elected with Leavitt, became the state's first woman lieutenant governor. Republican Bob Bennett, grabbing the Senate seat his father held for 24 years until 1974, won a convincing percent victory over Democratic Rep. Wayne Owens in a race that had turned ugly. Owens, a Democratic fixture for nearly a generation, had lost previous tries for the governorship and' for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring three-terRepublican Jake Gam. He two-ter- Beehive State's five electoral votes, the voters figuratively thumbed their noses at DemoBill Clincratic President-elec- t ton, who trailed even Ross Perot. It was Bush with 43 percent, Perot 27 and Clinton 25 percent. The Democrats fared no better in the governor's race, where Independent Merrill Cook trailed Leavitt 43 to 34 percent, but left Democrat Stewart Hanson Jr. with the crumbs of a 23 percent show- m second-younge- st ing. "Things are great," said state GOP Chairman Bruce Hough. "We love it." "All I can say is, thank God for our women," said Pet,er Billings Jr., the beleaguered state Democratic chairman. Billings referred to Democrat Jan Graham, who became the first woman to hold statewide office in Utah by edging Republican Iron County Attorney Scott Burns for attorney general by roughly 6,000 votes out of nearly 74 ,000 cast. Graham, the state's solicitor general, had been groomed for succession by outgoing 58-to-- 1 m (See UTAH, Page A2) t President-elec- t Bill Clinton, center, acknowledges Al Gore, and Gore's wife Tipper at Classified Ads Comics Crossword Entertainment Lcgals Movies Dl C5 D4 B7 Dl Stormy tonight, not so with lows Clearing on Thursday to partly cloudy and warmer, with highs low- er 50s. See Page A5. d mid-30- s. B7 SS&ZZZZZb Opinions Sports State Stocks World ' B4 CI B3 A6 A4 Air Quality Today's air quality was good in all Wasatch Front areas, with little change in pollution levels expected. See PageAi. fa "We will seek the best and most Clinton able and most committed people throughout this country to be a part promises new blood By JOHN KING AP Political Writer of our team," Clinton pledged, promising to consider Republicans and independents as well as Democrats. "The American people have voted to make a new beginning. ' ' His first priority: an economic stimulus package, anchored by road, bridge and other projects designed to create jobs quickly. Clinton also promised legislation providing health care for all President-eleBill Clinton today promised "the new blood, the new direction" to change America, casting his victory over President Bush as a mandate for a fresh economic course. He moved quickly to shape a Clinton adminisy tration and the A3: Why Bush lost agenda he k Demowill submit to a A9: Congressional, cratic Congress. deal with gubernatorial races swiftly Promising to the shaky economy that turned votA10: National ers against Bush, Clinton was legislatures, national meeting with his transition team to ballot measures in the search for a earnest begin Cabinet and a White House staff for the first Democratic adminisAmericans within 100 days, and tration in 12 years. to push quickly for a famipledged be "I'm sure there'll announceleave law, and campaign finance ments later this week," campaign ly reform. chairman Mickey Kantor told But a partisan cloud quickly CBS. Asked whether they would include Cabinet choices, Kantor popped up on his horizon. "We'll replied, "I'm not going to jump be in a strong position to block some of the awful legislation ... the gun." ct Op i.i r .:--- l : i te Stairra from President Clinton," said Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas. Vice President Dan Quayle conceded that Clinton ran a better campaign than the Republicans. "The two words that cost the the Republicans the election economy and the campaign," said Quayle on ABC. "Bill Clinton ran a much better campaign and the '' economy wasn't good Unlike Bush, Clinton will work with a Congress of his own party, . More Election Coverage Inside B1: Third District, county commission races, Span ish Fork transit initiative 100-da- new-loo- B4: State and local school board races B5: Parimutuel wagering initiative, state races ending a dozen years of divided government. Women and minorities made dramatic gains in congressional races, but sentiment was not as widespread as some had predicted. As the sun came up today. (See STORM, Page A2) nt Perot says campaign succeeded in delivering message to politicians n quest with a quip on a TV talk show in February, promised his loyalists he would remain available to them "any time, any place, anywhere." He later held up a bumper sticker that read: "Perot in off-agai- He finished out of DALLAS the running and $60 million out of pocket, but Ross Perot says his independent presidential campaign succeeded in sending "a laser-lik- e message" to the nation's orthodox politicians and the day may come to try it again. Perot won about 19 percent of the popular vote nationwide, but did not carry a single state after claiming in the final days he would sweep all 50 of them. But "I don't want any bitterness in our crowd," Perot told several thousand supporters at his election night party Tuesday. "I don't want any nega- tivism." The Dallas billionaire, who gan his unconventional, n, be- "96." "If by 1996, every place I go, the only thing 1 can find is American-made cars to put on that bumper, well they've cleaned out the tion they can work on together," Perot's son said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning Ameri-c- a. Speaking to supporters Tuesday night, Perot likened his candidacy to the grain of sand that irritates an oyster into generating a pearl . "It has been an honor to be your grain of sand in this process," Perot said. "We will continue to work barn, right?" together to make pearls if necesRoss Perot Jr., the candidate's sary in the future, fair enough?" son, said today that he believed his He said his millions of supportfather "will always be engaged in ers sent politicians "a laser-lik- e the American system" and indicatmessage to listen to the people." ed that if asked, Perot would aid "If nothing else, it's a wake-u- p the Clinton administration. call for these two parties," said "If President Clinton wants Per- Joe DeCarlo of Fla., who ot's help, he certainly would be decided to vote Perry, for Perot after willing to help him. I think it's just a matter of finding the right situa (See PEROT, Page A3) r:: rvsLdl n:v;:nrint J f supporters Tuesday night with, from left, his daughter Chelsea, wife Hillary, Vice the Old State House in Little Rock, Ark. tilon 1 Associated Press Writer Weather ' i AP Photo President-elec- By EVAN RAMSTAD Find it i. i ; 7 America chooses to reinvent self By JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELL Boston Globe In its first post-Col- d War election, America chose to reinvent itself. Rocked by the painful realities of the new world economic order, Americans staged a political revolution: opting for, as at several previous historic turning points, the hazards of change over the comforts of stasis. "This fits most of the yardsticks of a major political watershed," said Republican analyst Kevin Phillips. "What people are saying is that we've had a major economic failure of leadership in the last four years that cannot continue to place the country in jeopardy . ' Bill Clinton's landslide victory was a quintessentially American response, said Ken Burns, the prog PBS ducer of the "The Civil War." documentary The republic renews itself, he said, through such reinvention. "This is a great story. Let me quote my favorite writer: 'The struggle of today is not altogether for today, it is for a vast future also,"' said Burns, from his home in Walpole, N.H. "Abraham Lincoln said that. And that, very simply, is what this election was all about. "A sense of moment is upon us. We now have in our own means the power to transform our landscape. Historians of the future will judge how well we do," Burns said. As the size of Clinton's victory prize-winnin- became apparent, historians looked to historic political landmarks to explain what the voters have wrought. "We are in the midst of a process of revitalizing our political system," said Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer. "We've done this in the past in a series of waves that are in many ways similar. Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes. "Clinton is in a tradition that begins with Jefferson and runs to Andrew Jackson, to FDR, to the (See AMERICA, Page A3) iEntEaBtPQiy raaantg..grQEg) |