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Almost three days after an unexpectedly close election, CBS News projects that Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, has won his bid for another six-year term on Capitol Hill.Warner, who was first elected to the Senate in 2008 after serving as Virginia s governor, faced a challenge from Republican strategist Ed Gillespie. While the contest was not considered very competitive leading up to Election Day--Gillespie even curtailed his ad spending in the final days of the race--the returns on Tuesday reflected a stanley bottles considerably closer contest than many expected. Republicans gain control of the Senate 05:37 Midterm elections create new political landscape 04:38 stanley cup With 95 percent of the votes counted, though, Warner managed to eke out a slim, 49 to 48 percent victory, securing 1,071,283 votes to Gillespie s 1,054,556. The result offered one bright spot to a Democratic Party that suffered nearly across-the-board losses on Tuesday. Republicans increased the stanley france ir majority in the House of Representatives by 13 seats, and they stormed the Senate battleground to claim at least seven additional seats, putting Fmat Boehner: GOP infighting an argument over tactics
AP/Nick Wass Just when you thought it was safe to handicap the GOP presidential race, Mike Huckabee crashes the party. The former Arkansas governor has taken his underfunded and underdog campaign to new heights in Iowa, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. Huckabee has surged to a all-time high 21 percent in the poll, trailing front-runner Mitt Romney in Iowa by just 6 points. In a Des Moines Register Iowa poll in October, Huckabee had just 12 percent.A poll, of course, is simply a snapshot in time and we ll need to see more evide stanley thermos mug nce of a Huckabee surge before buying into it totally. But it s not surprising to see him gaining. Iowa is a state tailor made for Huckabee s candidacy and message. Rudy Giuliani, who has sort of slipped in and out of the state, seeming to commit to really competing one day then vanishing for periods of time. Fred Thompson s late and lackluster entrance into the ca gourde stanley mpaign hasn t won over the legions of support some once believed was there for his stanley cup taking. John McCain, who started out behind the eight-ball in the state because of his support for the Senate s version of immigration reform appears to be aiming more at New Hampshire.Still, Huckabee has struggled to capitalize on his surprising second-place showing in the Iowa Republican straw poll in August, bringing in a rather anemic $1 million during the third quarter. And, he has seen the support of social conservative leaders go to candidates much less simpatico with the mov |
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