2006 Election coverage

SWEEPING CHANGE

The Dem who'll replace King

WASHINGTON - He comes from a tiny town in the Mississippi Delta, arguably one of the least likely places in America to be attacked by terrorists.

Rumsfeld resigns as Defense Secretary

He survived the Abu Ghraib scandal and a chorus of top-brass criticism over Iraq, but Donald Rumsfeld couldn't survive the Democrats.

Ellis Henican: Win was just a bit too easy

Well, that part was easy.

Despite scandal, Hevesi wins comptroller's race

Despite controversy over his use of a state worker as his wife's chauffeur, Democratic Comptroller Alan Hevesi won re-election last night over Republican J. Christopher Callaghan and said he had every intention of serving his new term despite the scandal.

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Dems in charge of House, will challenge Bush

As Democrats prepare to take control of the U.S. House for the first time in a dozen years, at the top of their list of things to do is a change in the U.S. policy for the war in Iraq.

Resurgent Democrats Win Control of House

Democrats won control of the House early Wednesday after a dozen years of Republican rule in a resounding repudiation of a war, a president and a scandal-scarred Congress.

Voting System Worked, With Some Hiccups

There is still some fine-tuning to be done, but electronic voting worked well in most of the midterm elections -- even with one-third of American voters facing ballot machines they'd never used before.

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