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...Gingrich revolution had a cleansing effect—if the Democrats win 25 seats tonight, it’s a healthy night for democracy as well,” David Gergen, a Kennedy School of Government professor and former adviser to three Republican presidents and one Democrat, said at an Institute of Politics (IOP) event last night. In 1994, Republicans gained majorities in both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years...
...Rhode Island, moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee was defeated by former state attorney general Sheldon Whitehouse. And in Massachusetts, Democrat Deval L. Patrick ’78 won the state’s governorship. In addition to campaigning for Patrick at home, the Dems had taken several trips to Rhode Island to campaign for Whitehouse. And the club also stumped for Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in his successful bid to oust Republican Sen. Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania...
...week and a half before the Harvard-Yale Game, Law School alum Eliot Spitzer captured the New York governorship previously held by Eli George Pataki. The Democrat Spitzer won 69 percent of the vote in a race against a little-known Republican former state assemblyman...
...That familiar victor's olive branch did little to placate worried Republicans, who are preparing for life under a Democrat-led House, which will mean the loss of subpoena power and committee chairmanships that comes with defeat. G.O.P. strategists blamed the defeat on two factors: badly run races in the northeast and the wave of scandal that overtook the party. "The scandal seats clearly hurt us and our performance in the northeast was not good," said National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman Carl Forti. But he claimed some solace in races the party appeared likely to pull out in Connecticut...
...first indication of real trouble for the Republicans on Tuesday came with the loss of Kentucky's third district, where the competent and attractive five-term incumbent Anne Northup was unseated by Democrat John Yarmuth in a race that focused on Iraq and the performance of the Bush administration. Another key early indicator of discontent with Bush and Iraq came with the loss of twelve-term incumbent Nancy Johnson's solid seat in Connecticut...