Republicans hold US House; Democrats still hold out hope for Senate
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The US House of Representatives will remain firmly in the hands of George W. Bush's Republican party according to ballot-counting, but control of the Senate was too close to call in US congressional elections Tuesday.
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Democrats may actually keep their majority in the US Senate, even if Senator Tim Johnson remains incapacitated following brain surgery, a Senate historian told AFP, noting that over the years a few lawmakers have retained their seats despite prolonged illness.
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Thirty-four seats are up for grabs. In early returns, Republicans were well-positioned to retain their majority. However, with nine seats in close races, Democrats held on to hope of regaining control.
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Regardless who wins the US presidency, Republicans are likely to remain a key voice in the nation&#39;s capital since they appear positioned to keep control of a sharply divided Congress in Tuesday&#39;s elections.
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Although the Republican Party spent the runup to the 2006 midterm elections on the defensive, it managed to maintain its longstanding fundraising advantage over the Democrats .
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President Bush&#39;s Republican Party is expected to maintain control of the US House of Representatives and the Senate following Tuesday&#39;s elections.
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President Bush has his second term. Republicans are firmly in control of the House and the Senate. It's no wonder the oft-repeated adjective for Democrats is "dispirited."
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate race in America&#39;s political battle was proving as pitched as the main event yesterday as Republicans renewed their claim on the Senate floor and reached out to grab hold of Democratic seats across the south.
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Though polls show many Americans are unhappy with the direction of the nation, they seem likely in the Nov. 2 elections to keep Republicans in control of the U.S. Congress.
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Democrats, in their fight to win back control of the U.S. House of Representatives, have set their sights on a tight race in rural Georgia where a conservative one-term Republican is battling to hold a Democratic-leaning seat.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats made little headway in their efforts to build up a meaningful majority in Tuesday&#39;s battles over 34 Senate seats.
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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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Intent on seizing control of Congress, Democrats want to keep the focus on President Bush's missteps in Iraq. Yet the war is fracturing the party in a handful of House and Senate races.
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A handful of nail-biter contests could flip control of the US Senate to the Democrats in the November 2 election, while the House of Representatives is expected to remain firmly in the grasp of George W. Bush's Republican Party.
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There are just eight weeks until Nov. 7, the Election Day on which the nationÃ¢ÂÂs voters will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate and House and 36 of the 50 state governorships. Yet today, Sept. 12, is one of the busiest days on this yearÃ¢ÂÂs primary calendar, with nine states Ã¢ÂÂ Arizona, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin Ã¢ÂÂ holding their primary contests.
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Democrats must gain six seats in the  November 7 election to recapture U.S. Senate control, and they  lead in three of the seven most vulnerable Republican-held  states, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
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President Bush says he believes Republicans will retain control of the Congress after the November elections, even as members of his own party predict a loss of some seats.