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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

November 07, 2006

A Democratic House Sweep?

Posted at 4:58 PM ET by Silla Brush

All we've been hearing about for weeks is the growing number of embattled Republicans around the country. Are there no Democrats in jeopardy? When is the last time, anyway, that one of the two parties has held all of its seats and picked up many of its rival's?

Ken Rudin at NPR has the answer: Not since 1948 have the Democrats kept all their seats and picked up Republican ones (76 that year)–not even in wave election years like 1974. The Democrats most in jeopardy remain Melissa Bean from Illinois and then a duo in Georgia: Jim Marshall and John Barrow.


The staff of U.S. News & World Report are live in Washington watching the results roll in. Silla Brush is at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee headquarters and Will Sullivan is reporting from the Republican National Congressional Committee headquarters. Ken Walsh and Dan Gilgoff are in the U.S. News offices, while Michael Barone is live nationally on Fox television and Gloria Borger is live on CBS.

U.S. News photographers are also dispatched around the nation, filing photos live to our photo gallery.

Our hour-by-hour guide to tonight's key races will help you find the bellwethers throughout the nation.

As the numbers roll in, if you have anecdotes to report or questions about the returns that you'd like us to address, please email electionresults @ usnews.com.

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