CNN/AP: Voters Have Their Say

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Voters to finally have their say
November 7, 2006


Voters use electronic voting machines in Newark, Ohio, Tuesday. Ohio GOP Senator Mike DeWine faces a tough re-election fight.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican control of Congress was on the line Tuesday in an election colored by voters' dismay over the Iraq war and misbehavior in Washington.

At stake in the midterm election were all 435 House seats, 33 in the Senate, 36 races for governor, ballot measures on gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, the minimum wage and more -- plus the overarching fate of President Bush's agenda in the last two years of his presidency.

In a climate inhospitable if not toxic for incumbents, Democrats hoped finally to answer the rout that drove them from legislative power in 1994. Even their opponents conceded Democrats were certain to make gains and, despite brave words for public consumption, Republicans worried that control of the House would slip from their hands.

Even Senate control was up in the air, but a tougher climb for Democrats.

Unsurprisingly, the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican parties talked optimistically as voters went to the polls Tuesday....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/election.roundup.ap/index.html