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November 09, 2006
How strongly did the voters speak?
Loudly, according to the Senate races. Republicans won just one Senate race, the open race in Tennessee, and it was close. Democrat incumbents won eveyr race. No Republican incumbents won their races. Voters, in essence, "threw the bums out".
The Senate winners In races where:
the incumbent won:
Liebermann (D)
Menendez (D)
Clinton (D)
Cantwell (D)
the incumbent lost:
Stabenow (D)
McCaskill (D)
Tester (D)
Brown (D)
Casey (D)
Whitehouse (D)
Webb (D)
Open races:
Cardin (D)
Klobucher (D)
Corker (R)
Posted by samstaley at November 9, 2006 07:03 AM
Sam,
Perhaps an oversight, but there were a number of races won by GOP incumbents: Kyl in Arizona, Hatch in Utah, Ensign in Nevada, Hutchison in Texas, et. al. There were also a number of other Democrat incumbents who won: Byrd in West Virginia, Nelson in Florida, et. al.
Yeah, in the closely watched races, the Dems swept everything except Tennessee, but there were a number of other races out there that didn't get much media attention because there was no real competition from the opposition party.
Comment by: MK at November 9, 2006 12:17 PM
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