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...HUME: I think Foley's one of those episodes where the damage from that is done. In other words, you're not going to see people going into the voting booth and saying: I'm going to vote Democrat because of the disgusting things that Mark Foley said to a page. But campaigns are kind of organic. They have a certain growth and a certain progression about them. Scandals tend not to be voting issues, but they tend to be major interruptions, and they tend to cause all kinds of tactical and even strategic problems. Because what happens...
...that Republicans are fretting about the most is going on just across the Potomac. In Virginia, the red state where Senator George Allen's reelection campaign was once expected to be little more than a test run for a 2008 presidential bid, Republicans are worried that the Republican-turned-Democrat former Navy Secretary Jim Webb is coming in for a very strong finish that could put the state into the Democratic column...
...Indeed, Democrats were becoming cautiously optimistic that they might win back the Senate - a feat that only a few months ago looked next to impossible. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean used to tell reporters that if he woke up Wednesday morning having defeated Pennsylvania's conservative Republican Senator Rick Santorum, he would consider the night a success. That milestone was passed early in the evening, as the networks declared State Treasurer Bob Casey the winner. But it was only the beginning of a what could be a very big evening for the Democrats. In Virginia, Democrat Jim Webb...
...House, the defeat of GOP Congressman John Hostettler by Democrat Brad Ellsworth, the Vanderburgh County sheriff, was the first confirmation that predictions of a Democratic takeover were coming to pass. The main question now appears to be how big a margin the Democrats will rack...
...exit polls suggest that Democratic candidates came into the election with the wind, not a wall, at their back. And it was not only increasing opposition to the Iraq war, which voters had all along told pollsters was their biggest concern and which ranked as an important issue to two-thirds of voters. An even greater factor may have been the backwash from a series of GOP scandals, with three-fourths of voters citing corruption as an important factor in deciding their votes. Democrats also appeared to be winning back the constituencies that had so contributed to Republican victories over...