Reuters:
Democrats have won enough seats to take control of the U.S. Senate from President George W. Bush's Republican Party and hold both houses of Congress for the first time in 12 years, according to media reports on Wednesday.
NBC television and the Associated Press reported that Democrat James Webb defeated Republican Sen. George Allen in the closely contested Virginia Senate race.
The Democrats had already won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday's elections. Webb's seat was the sixth pickup Democrats needed for a majority in the 100-seat Senate.
Webb led Allen by about 7,000 votes out of 2.3 million cast. The final vote count could take a week, with a winner certified on November 27. Any recount could stretch into December.
Allen, an asshole to the end, refuses to concede. Likewise, Montana's Conrad Burns proves his rep as an asshole.
Reuters:
Democrat Jon Tester declared victory over Republican Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana on Wednesday in a close contest, but the incumbent declined to concede in a race crucial to control of the U.S. Senate.
"We won this thing," Tester, 50, the state senate president and organic farmer, told a Great Falls news conference.
In the latest unofficial results from the Montana secretary of state's office, Tester won 181,917 votes or 49.2 percent, compared to 178,567 or 48.3 percent for Burns, who was first elected in 1988.
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"Jon Tester ran a good race and has the lead right now, but it is extremely close," Burns said in a statement. "There are still votes out there that deserve to be counted."
"I believe we need to continue to let that process play itself out and there is no need to rush to a conclusion when the votes are this close."
From what I understand, Burns can't possibly come up with the uncounted votes to close the difference -- there just aren't enough left.
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