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Democrats Gain in Senate, 9:40 p.m. E.T. Democrats may not win a 60 seat filibuster-proof senate majority, but they will definitely pick up a few new seats. Former Virginia governor Mark Warner, as widely expected, is already projected to win the commonwealth's seat being vacated by the retiring John Warner (no relation). More significantly, freshman Senator Elizabeth Dole has lost her North Carolina seat to Democratic challenger Kay Hagan; Dole's last-minute attack ad tying Hagan to an atheist PAC appeared to have backfired. The drag of President Bush continued in New Hampshire, where former governor...
...will be those ready to cast a ballot. He points to a hedge on the other side of the church parking lot, just visible in the pre-dawn light. He measured that distance last year so he knows. "Just checking," said Hall, donning the yellow mesh vest that will mark him for the next 13 hours...
...door combat. Says Jared Leopold, Virginia's communications director for the Democratic party's coordinated campaign: "We are expecting a very close election. [Democratic Senator Jim Webb] won by less than 10,000 votes across Virginia. He won by less than one-half of a percentage point. [Democratic Governor Mark Warner] won by only five points...
Meanwhile, back on Facebook, Steve Fox of San Francisco updated his status to tell friends that he let his 11-year-old son mark the ballot in the voting booth. "I think it left him feeling a lot more invested in the political process," Fox said. "He told me after we were done that he wished he were 18 so he could vote on his own." All day, the social-networking site's news feed twittered with users either complaining about the long lines or marveling at how quickly they got in and out. Many encouraged friends to vote, reminding...
...Palm Beach County, Fla., is ecstatic. Not only does the high early-voting turnout favor Democratic voters, but the party appears to be ahead in absentee ballots, traditionally dominated by Republicans. "[In the past,] we've won races on the machines and lost them in the absentee," says Mark Alan Siegel, president of the Democratic Club of Boca Raton-Delray Beach, in the southern part of the county...