• Isanti County voters liked Republican McCain for president • Incumbent state legislators win • County board welcomes Alan Duff; Larry Southerland wins by 8 votes • New faces join city offices, Dist. 911 School Board

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Incumbents seemed to hold their ground in this year’s 2008 General Election held Nov. 4. State Representatives Rob Eastlund and Tim Faust were re-elected to their respective districts, and Larry Southerland and Kurt Daudt were re-elected as county commissioners.

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An editorial by Joe Nathan

The day after Minnesota’s local state and national elections, imagine walking into the central business district of your community and finding this: “Tanks blocking streets, soldiers knocking down doors and shooting people,” and what a reporter describes as an “apocalyptic frenzy of rape, robbery and random killings.”

Impossible? Inconceivable? So far, yes. But many of these things have happened within the last year, in European and African countries.