Articles Archive for 8 November 2006
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You can now welcome the Democratic Party as the majority shareholder in the U.S. House of Representatives. A lot of people are already attributing the Democrats’ somewhat predictable success as reaction to the U.S. strategy in Iraq.
I don’t think it could purely be because of Iraq, otherwise John Kerry might be president.
Here’s some stats:
By 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, Democrats had won 228 seats, enough for control, and were leading for another 4, which would give them 232. Republicans, who hold 229 seats in the current House, won 193 and were leading …