UK's The Guardian:Democrats take control of House (great pic)

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Nancy Pelosi and fellow Democrats celebrate taking control of the House of Representatives at an election night party in Washington. Photograph: Matthew Cavanaugh/EPA


President George Bush's job is a lot tougher this morning, after the Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, breaking the conservative monopoly of power in Washington and clearing the way for congressional investigations into the conduct of the Iraq war.
The future of the Senate still hangs in the balance, with two states yet to be decided. The Montana count is tight but leaning towards the Democrats, while in Virginia lawyers were preparing to fight over the outcome. The Democratic challenger, Jim Webb, holds a lead of a few thousand out of 2.3m votes cast. If the vote is close enough, with less than a 0.5% margin, Virginia state law gives the loser the option of calling for a recount once the first count has been finalised by November 27.

In the early hours of the morning, the Republican incumbent, Senator George Allen, said counting would continue throughout the night and he called on his supporters to watch the tally "like eagles and hawks". Even before the sun rose over Virginia, both parties were firing off emails to sympathetic lawyers calling on them to prepare do battle over provisional ballots, absentee ballots, challenges to results from computerised voting machines and every other legal grey area.
Complicating the picture still further, the FBI opened an investigation into alleged fraud and intimidation involving phone calls made to Democratic voters in Virginia falsely claiming their names were not on the electoral rolls or giving false information about the location of polling stations.

more;http://www.guardian.co.uk/midterms2006/story/0,,1942100,00.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. That's great nm