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...Senate, which would have made their majority filibuster-proof. Instead, they suffered an astonishing defeat. The Democrats picked up five seats in the House -- a gain without historical precedent for the party that holds the White House. "This was the Republicans? election to lose," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Heading up the GOP casualties: outspoken New York Senator Al D?Amato, unseated by Rep. Chuck Schumer despite spending a record-breaking $22 million; California challenger Matt Fong, who failed to oust Sen. Barbara Boxer; and in North Carolina, the ultraconservative Lauch Faircloth, who lost...
...foretaste of the next presidential election. Elsewhere, it seems, the religious conservative base of the Republican party was simply not motivated enough to turn out in the same kind of numbers that made 1994 such a watershed. Does that mean President Clinton is off the hook? Not according to Branegan. "After a deep breath of one or two days," he says, "the Washington establishment will again be baying at the moon of impeachment...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Dean Fischer and Douglas Waller/Washington and Lisa Beyer/Jerusalem
...Reported by Jay Branegan, James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...With reporting by Jay Branegan, John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington