GOP Adds to Majority With Wins in South
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Republicans expanded their slender majority in the Senate in Tuesday&#39;s election, toppling the Democratic leader, grabbing seats from the Democratic Party in at least four southern
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Republican  presidential candidates turned their attention to South  Carolina on Wednesday with their White House race as wide open  as ever with a win by Mitt Romney in Michigan.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton rode a wave of Hispanic voter turnout to victory and John McCain benefited from voters concerned about the economy and Iraq as the nation's most populous state wielded its influence in the presidential nominating process for the first time in decades.
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Still too close to call, initial results show the Senator with an edge over Mitt Romney in the winner-take-all GOP primary
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Tuesday's election turned Texas Democrats' political landscape from bleak to barren. A new redistricting map pushed through by Republicans helped the GOP gain a 21-11 advantage over Democrats in the state's congressional delegation, up from the current 16-16 split and the first GOP majority since Reconstruction.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain's win in the South Carolina primary yesterday gives him two major victories in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and strengthens his campaign going into the Jan. 29 Florida primary.
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THE RACE: The presidential race among Democrats in South Carolina.
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Republicans renewed their grip on the US Senate today and reached out for more, capturing Democratic seats across the south. Democratic leader Tom Daschle faced a strong challenge in South Dakota.
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Conservative South Carolina's bare-knuckle politics heralded another wild turn in the Republican White House race Wednesday, with Mitt Romney basking in the first big win of his campaign.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee  won the Louisiana Republican primary on Saturday, notching up  another Southern victory in his bid to become the party's  presidential candidate in the November general election, CNN  projected early Sunday.
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With control of the Senate in the balance, Democrats are battling an apparent Republican surge in GOP strongholds where President Bush is running strong, from the Deep South to South Dakota.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain pulled out a win Saturday in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary, edging former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee by 3 percentage points in nearly complete returns and easily outrunning the rest of the GOP field.
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The US election race shifts focus to two southern states, after important wins for Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
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Barack Obama rolled to his 10th consecutive win for the Democrats, while  John McCain picked up two more states in his march to the GOP nomination.
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Mitt Romney defeated his principal rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, by winning a clear plurality of Republicans and conservatives.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada's presidential contests on Saturday, and Republican voting ended in South Carolina as an unpredictable White House race moved to the U.S. South and West.
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Democrats, who were heavily backed by public-employee unions, gained firm control of the state Senate and got within striking distance of displacing Republicans in the House.