• Dem Gains in Legislatures
  • Democrats are claiming control of a majority of chambers, including new majorities in the Indiana House, New Hampshire House and Senate, Iowa House and Senate, ...
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  • A Democratic Senate?
  • McCaskill wins Missouri. Tester is still ahead in Montana. That's a tied Senate, with VP Cheney breaking the tie. Webb has declared victory in Virginia. ...
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  • Michigan
  • Michigan voters passed a ban on affirmative action. Remember that it was a University of Michigan case that led the Supreme Court to uphold the ...
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  • Oklahoma
  • Republicans picked up the two Senate seats they needed to force a tie. Democrats picked up one House seat, far from enough to end the ...
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  • More Chambers
  • No change in Tennessee Senate. Democrats pick up a minor party seat in the House. Democrats pick up 10 seats in the Vermont House, plus one ...
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  • They Can't Win Everywhere
  • There was a lot of 13th Floor chatter about whether big gubernatorial victories could help Democrats pick up legislative seats in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania ...
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  • Democrats Storm Iowa
  • In addition to their House seat gains and Chet Culver's election -- the first time Iowa has elected one Democrat to succeed another as governor ...
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