In Setback for Democrats, Incumbent Wins Republican Senate Primary
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Senator Lincoln Chafee fended off a bid from a populist challenger, keeping the race in Rhode Island alive until November.
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Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln  Chafee, a frequent foe of President George W. Bush's policies,  beat a conservative primary challenger on Tuesday in a race  crucial to Republican hopes of retaining Senate control in  November's election.
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The come-from-behind candidate scores an impressive win over Mitt Romney in the nation's first primary, while the Clinton-Obama race appears tighter than expected
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Republicans and Democrats swapped seats in Georgia and Illinois as they battled for Senate control in a string of races concentrated in the South and West.
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In blow to Clinton, Sen. will get one of most sought-after prizes of Democratic nomination battle.
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Attorney General Charlie Crist won FloridaÂs Republican primary for governor, while Representative Katherine Harris easily won the partyÂs Senate primary.
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Republicans retained control of the US Senate on Tuesday, as the Democratic floor leader found himself struggling to save his job in the face of a strong GOP challenge.
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The Nov. 7 election included plenty of successes for Ohio Democrats, who wrested the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat from Republicans, picked up an open House seat, and ran highly competitive races against three GOP House incumbents.
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Republicans captured a previously Democratic-held Senate seat in Georgia on Tuesday as they battled to retain control of a sharply divided US Congress, according to Fox and NBC network projections.
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Republicans defeated Democrats in the Senate race in Georgia on Tuesday, while the Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Vermont and Indiana, reports reaching here said.
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Republican challenger John Thune beat Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, adding a South Dakota Senate seat to GOP gains in Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and the Carolinas.
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It only took 11 of VermontÃ¢ÂÂs 260 precincts to report in for Rep. Bernard Sanders to be declared the winner of TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs Democratic Senate primary. That is what happens when the popular eight-term incumbent of the stateÃ¢ÂÂs only House seat runs up more than 90 percent of the vote over four virtually unknown opponents.
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A conservative former state lawmaker whose campaign targeted illegal immigration and border security won the GOP primary for an open U.S. House seat, despite a lobbying push by the National Republican Congressional Committee to defeat him.
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Rep. David Vitter became the first Louisiana Republican elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, vanquishing four Democrats on Tuesday to capture the seat outright.
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Republicans renewed their grip on the Senate last night and reached out for more, capturing a string of Democratic seats across the South.
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Democrats were winning the battle for control of the state House and Senate as election results rolled in Wednesday, though thousands of uncounted absentee ballots could still flip the results in several close races.
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Both Democrats and Republicans insist they emerged as winners from last week's failed GOP effort to cut taxes on multimillion dollar estates and raise the minimum wage.