Sorry. Democratic Losses Grow as More Midterm Results Come In

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The full magnitude of the Republican Party’s success in reshaping the national political landscape at President Obama’s expense became clearer Wednesday morning as the party seemed headed toward an even longer list of electoral victories in Senate and governor races that had been too close to call before dawn.

White House officials, waking to far deeper losses than they had expected in races across the country, announced that
Senator Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao, celebrated his re-election with supporters during a party in
In Alaska, the winner of the Senate race remained uncertain Wednesday morning, though the Republican candidate, Dan Sullivan, moved into a small lead in the vote count and appeared poised to oust Senator Mark Begich, a Democrat. A victory by Mr. Sullivan would further whittle away Mr. Obama’s support in a Senate that has for years served as the president’s bulwark in Congress against the Republican-controlled House.
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If Mr. Sullivan wins and Republicans succeed in ousting Senator Mary L. Landrieu in Louisiana in a runoff election next month, Republicans would command a 54-vote majority in the Senate, a gain of nine seats and an almost complete turnaround from the current chamber, where Democrats control 55 seats.

In Virginia, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, was slightly ahead in the vote count in his bid for re-election, but his Republican challenger, Ed Gillespie, a former lobbyist and Republican political adviser, was within less than a percentage point and could request a recount in that state.

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In the House, Democratic losses mounted overnight, too, as Republicans approached their largest majority since the 1940s. Representative Greg Walden, Republican of Oregon and the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, called the results a “referendum on the president’s policies” but said he hoped the two parties could find a way to work together.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/us/politics/midterm-democratic-losses-grow.html?_r=0

[Algernon Moncrieff]

1. It was a thumping of the first order. Like 2006 in reverse.