In San Francisco Democrat Gavin Newsom has narrowly beaten Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez in the city’s mayoral race. Newsom received about 53 percent of the vote, Gonzalez received 47 percent. The Democrat Newson spent eight times as much on the campaign. If Gonzalez had won he would have become the nation’s highest-ranking Green Party member. At 36 Newsom becomes San Francisco’s youngest mayor in more than a century. He will succeed Willie Brown next month.