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...Harvard College Democrats President Eric P. Lesser ’07 forecasted early in the night that Democrats would gain 25 seats in the House and 6 in the Senate—enough for a bare majority. He also hailed his own club’s efforts, noting that in the states where the Dems campaigned, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, their candidates triumphed...
...Healey’s strategy of attacking Patrick’s fiscal policies while emphasizing her socially liberal positions—she is pro-choice and favors stem cell research—failed to gain traction, even though Romney and former governors Paul Cellucci and William F. Weld ’66 had employed similar strategies successfully...
...substantially involved in the UC even as a freshman representative. He was a co-sponsor, along with council member Ricky B. Shah ’09, of the bill to bring condoms to freshman dormitories, and he worked along with representative Randall S. Sarafa ’09 to gain keycard access for upperclassmen in the Yard.It can be politically risky for a junior presidential candidate to run with a sophomore, Greenfield says, because doing so can lead other sophomores with latent presidential aspirations to deny their support for a potential future competitor.The last time a sophomore was elected vice...
...House seats are on the ballot, and officials from both parties at midday were privately predicting a Democratic pick-up of at least 20 seats and maybe more. Democrats need 15 seats to take control of the lower chamber; some Republicans were braced for a Democratic gain of twice that number. The Senate is a longer reach for Democrats, requiring them to pick up six seats, but that is no longer considered beyond their grasp...
...Still, the results were amount to very good news for Democrats. They appear headed toward regaining control of the House, and a majority of the governorships across the country-both for the first time since 1994. And their gain of least three seats in the Senate is significant, considering that the Democrats began this cycle pessimistic that they could even hold on to the 45 seats they have...