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WGNNews.org Posted : November 7, 2002
Republicans
claimed at least 51 Senate seats to the Democrats’ 46
Republicans claimed at least 51 Senate seats to the Democrats’
46, though another seat is held by an independent who usually
votes with Democrats. Two races remained too close to call. But
even if Democrats took those, Republicans would hold the
majority with Vice President Dick Cheney, who acts as president
of the Senate, casting any tie-breaking votes.
In the House, Tuesday’s voting padded the GOP majority by
at least two seats.
There was some consolation for Democrats at the
gubernatorial level, breaking the GOP grip in Illinois, Michigan
and Pennsylvania — electoral troves critical to Bush’s designs
on a second term. Democrats also captured formerly Republican or
independent-held governorships in Kansas, Maine, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Still, Republicans claimed at least 20 of the 36
governorships at stake Tuesday
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