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The three-candidate runoff that results is a loose parody of the '96 presidential election, which makes for "a moral fable with rare comic bite" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein the film "exuberantly caustic."
Brown, the city's first black mayor, won 65 percent of the vote in a runoff election with fellow Democrat City Supervisor Tom Ammiano.
The top two finishers, who got 25 percent and 22 percent, respectively, will compete in a runoff.
Coverage of Alfonso Portillo's landslide victory in Sunday's runoff to Guatemala's general election seldom failed to mention the positive impact of Portillo's confession earlier this year that in 1982 he killed two rivals for the deanship of the Mexican law school where he was teaching.
The New York Times played up Duke's showing, saying he "fell just short" of making the runoff and suggesting that he would have made it if a rival hadn't cut into his vote.