Daschle defeated as Republicans make Senate gains
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WASHINGTON - Republicans expanded their Senate majority in Tuesday&#39;s US elections, picking up as many as four more seats and knocking off Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in the process.
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The next Senate will have a bigger, more conservative Republican majority and several new opponents of abortion.
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By ROBERT THOMPSON, The Washington Post News service  Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who has bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate race in America&#39;s political battle was proving as pitched as the main event yesterday as Republicans renewed their claim on the Senate floor and reached out to grab hold of Democratic seats across the south.
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Thirty-four seats are up for grabs. In early returns, Republicans were well-positioned to retain their majority. However, with nine seats in close races, Democrats held on to hope of regaining control.
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The Republican Party has lined up to beat back a conservative primary challenge to the most liberal Republican in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
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Republicans grabbed early leads in several key Senate races where GOP victories could make life more difficult for Democratic Gov.
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Republicans retained control of the US Senate on Tuesday, as the Democratic floor leader found himself struggling to save his job in the face of a strong GOP challenge.
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Republicans are expected to hold on to their House majority tomorrow, but the Senate is turning into a nail-biter, with nine races in play that could upset the party&#39;s precarious hold on power.
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The Rhode Island senator's win in Tuesday's primary over his conservative challenger may boost the GOP's chances for maintaining control of Congress
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Democrats, who were heavily backed by public-employee unions, gained firm control of the state Senate and got within striking distance of displacing Republicans in the House.
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Republicans took over from Democrats the seat in the key battleground state of South Carolinain the Senate races Tuesday, making it even harder the uphill fight by Democrats for the Senate control.
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Democratic senators elected Harry Reid of Nevada as their new leader on Tuesday, to succeed Tom Daschle, who was defeated for re-election on Nov. 2 in South Dakota.
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Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and former Rep. John Thune sparred over political ads and the increasingly negative tone of South Dakota's Senate race Sunday during a nationally televised debate.
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Already, there is a new verb floating around the Capitol: &quot;Daschled.&quot; It describes what can happen to those, like the Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, who oppose
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Preliminary results so far of Senate races held Tuesday in the United States showed a tie between Republicans and Democrats, with each side winning five states.
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Republicans expanded their hold on Congress in Tuesday&#39;s elections and Democrat Tom Daschle became the first Senate leader in a half century to be voted out of office, according to network projections.