The plant will be the third for India's largest car maker by sales and its first outside the northern state of Haryana, where labor agitation affected production at a factory for most of last year.

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Spitzer was elected governor in November 2006 with huge popular support--the largest first-term landslide in New York State history.

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First, he has the good fortune to hail from the largest state in the region: Texas alone has 32 electoral-college votes.

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