Democrats&#39; Senate control in &#39;08 theirs to lose
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While the 2008 presidential campaign  grabs most of the headlines, Republicans hope to buck the odds  on another front -- the U.S. Senate, where last year they  narrowly lost control to the Democrats.
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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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Unless Kerry surges, Democrats may see hope of controlling House or Senate slip away.
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The news of Senator Tim Johnsonâs hospitalization highlighted the fragility of the Democratsâ new majority.
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It's no secret that Senate Democrats are looking at a target-rich environment in 2008. Open Republican seats in Colorado, Virginia and Nebraska are likely to be seriously contested by Democrats, while Republican incumbents in Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon are also in danger.
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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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A weary and sharply divided U.S. Senate headed on Wednesday toward a showdown vote on an apparently doomed Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008.
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The Senate and House that will open in January will have a stronger Republican majority that has moved to the right, while the Democratic minority will be weaker and edged
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Tim Johnson was hospitalized after becoming disoriented, throwing into question Democratsâ control of the Senate.
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Democratic control of the next US Senate was suddenly cast into doubt after a lawmaker was rushed to the hospital after suffering a possible stroke, his staff said.
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Democrats enter the fall campaign   with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the   U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them   positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make   significant gains in the Senate.
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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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With far more Republicans than Democrats facing reelection in 2008, Democrats hope to widen their independent-bolstered 51-to-49 majority, perhaps by three or four seats. But it takes serious political talent to knock off a Senate incumbent, and it's mostly red-leaning states that are in play....
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Senate Democrats are changing management, their ranks reduced to a 74-year low and their longtime leader defeated for re-election back home.
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Congress's top Democrat, Tom Daschle, lost his bid to be reelected to the Senate, US networks reported, capping a night of defeats his party, which also failed to win control of either chamber of the US legislature.
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Republicans grabbed early leads in several key Senate races where GOP victories could make life more difficult for Democratic Gov.
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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.