Arnie loses out in ‘special’ vote

DEMOCRATS cleaned up in off-year elections from New Jersey to California, sinking the candidate who embraced US President George W Bush in the final days of the Virginia governor’s campaign.

They also turned back all four of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reshape state government.

Democratic Senator Jon Corzine easily won the New Jersey governor’s seat after an expensive, mudslinging campaign, trouncing Republican Doug Forrester.