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GOP expects Ohio win, Bush re-election
By DAN OLMSTED
United Press International
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- White House sources said Tuesday night President George W. Bush has been told he will win Ohio and be re-elected president of the United States.
At 10:30 p.m. Bush was told by a senior adviser that Ohio would land in the GOP column and put him over the top with at least 274 electoral votes.
"I believe I will win," Bush told reporters Tuesday as his electoral tally rose and it became increasingly likely Republicans will retain control of the Senate.
"We're very upbeat," Bush said as he watched returns in the Yellow Room at the White House with family members, including his father, former President George H.W. Bush. "I believe I will win. It's going to be an exciting evening."
Bush's comments shortly before 10 p.m. EST reflected rising Republican hopes that Bush will win Florida and remain in contention in Ohio. Winning both those states would almost certainly return him to office.
The comments were also timed to reach voters in states where the polls had not yet closed, including Hawaii, Nevada and Oregon.
CNN had Bush leading with 193 electoral votes to Sen. John Kerry's 112. Consumer activist and potential spoiler Ralph Nader had none. Bush led the popular vote with 22 million to Kerry's 20.2 million
Bush was declared the winner in Wyoming, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
Kerry was declared winner in Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Illinois, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
If Bush holds Florida and the other states he won in 2000 except New Hampshire, which appears headed for Kerry, then Kerry must win Ohio, which Bush carried in 2000, and Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan, which Vice President Al Gore carried in 2000. Early reporting had those races too close to call.
Republicans appear ready to increase their majority in the U.S. Senate. As expected, they lost the Republican-held seat in Illinois to rising star Barack Obama but compensated with the pickup of the Georgia seat held by Democrat Zell Miller, who will be replaced by Republican Rep. Johnny Isakson.
Republicans survived close calls to hold on to seats in Oklahoma and Kentucky and appear to have gained the two open seats in the Carolinas, one of which was held by Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards.
Republicans currently control the Senate 51 to 48, with one independent, who generally votes with the Democrats. They also control the U.S. House of Representatives and are expected to keep that majority.
Eleven governorships were being contested. In Indiana former Bush budget director Mitch Daniels beat the Democratic incumbent. Democrats held their seats in North Carolina and West Virginia. Republicans held the governorship in Vermont.
The networks were taking extraordinary care in calling races after the 2000 debacle that left what NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called not just an egg but "an omelette" on their faces.
Thirty-four Senate seats, all 435 House seats and 11 governorships also were up for grabs at the end of the longest and costliest campaign in history. Projected Senate winners by early evening were Obama in Illinois; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; and Republican Johnny Isakson in Georgia, filling the seat vacated by conservative Democrat Zell Miller. Republicans were seeking to build on a 51-48 majority (Independent James Jeffords of Vermont sides with the Democrats).
Galvanized by issues ranging from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the Iraq war to same-sex marriage and the memory of the freakishly close 2000 election, upward of 120 million voters -- a record -- were expected to cast ballots for Bush, Kerry or, in some states, consumer activist Ralph Nader.
Republicans said Bush deserved re-election because he had responded strongly to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people -- first by toppling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and going after al-Qaida, the terror network that claimed responsibility for the attacks, there and around the world.
They said the president's subsequent decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 and depose Saddam Hussein was a logical next step in an effort to keep terrorists away from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
But the failure to find such weapons -- and an ongoing insurgency that has claimed more than 1,100 U.S. lives -- left the Democrats an opening they increasingly took advantage of during the campaign. Kerry called the war a "mistake," even though the senator voted to give Bush the authority to wage it. Bush called him a "flip-flopper."
A videotape of al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden that surfaced Friday served to remind voters that he had not been captured more than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks he ordered. But polls show that the public has more confidence in Bush to lead a war against terror, so the net effect was unclear and perhaps a draw.
Domestically, job losses during the Bush tenure and a ballooning federal deficit were also on voters' minds -- as was the divisive and still-disputed outcome of the 2000 election, one that Democrats vowed immediately to avenge. Bush won after a marathon 36-day legal battle settled by the U.S. Supreme Court. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, won the popular vote by about half a million votes.
As if emphasizing that outcome -- and reminding voters that the next president may well have the opportunity to shape the third branch of government for years to come -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist did not return as planned to the Supreme Court of the United States Monday after receiving treatment for thyroid cancer. Medical experts said the details of the announcement suggested Rehnquist might be suffering from a deadly, untreatable form of the disease and could not continue on the court.
By DAN OLMSTED
United Press International
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- White House sources said Tuesday night President George W. Bush has been told he will win Ohio and be re-elected president of the United States.
At 10:30 p.m. Bush was told by a senior adviser that Ohio would land in the GOP column and put him over the top with at least 274 electoral votes.
"I believe I will win," Bush told reporters Tuesday as his electoral tally rose and it became increasingly likely Republicans will retain control of the Senate.
"We're very upbeat," Bush said as he watched returns in the Yellow Room at the White House with family members, including his father, former President George H.W. Bush. "I believe I will win. It's going to be an exciting evening."
Bush's comments shortly before 10 p.m. EST reflected rising Republican hopes that Bush will win Florida and remain in contention in Ohio. Winning both those states would almost certainly return him to office.
The comments were also timed to reach voters in states where the polls had not yet closed, including Hawaii, Nevada and Oregon.
CNN had Bush leading with 193 electoral votes to Sen. John Kerry's 112. Consumer activist and potential spoiler Ralph Nader had none. Bush led the popular vote with 22 million to Kerry's 20.2 million
Bush was declared the winner in Wyoming, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
Kerry was declared winner in Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Illinois, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
If Bush holds Florida and the other states he won in 2000 except New Hampshire, which appears headed for Kerry, then Kerry must win Ohio, which Bush carried in 2000, and Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan, which Vice President Al Gore carried in 2000. Early reporting had those races too close to call.
Republicans appear ready to increase their majority in the U.S. Senate. As expected, they lost the Republican-held seat in Illinois to rising star Barack Obama but compensated with the pickup of the Georgia seat held by Democrat Zell Miller, who will be replaced by Republican Rep. Johnny Isakson.
Republicans survived close calls to hold on to seats in Oklahoma and Kentucky and appear to have gained the two open seats in the Carolinas, one of which was held by Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards.
Republicans currently control the Senate 51 to 48, with one independent, who generally votes with the Democrats. They also control the U.S. House of Representatives and are expected to keep that majority.
Eleven governorships were being contested. In Indiana former Bush budget director Mitch Daniels beat the Democratic incumbent. Democrats held their seats in North Carolina and West Virginia. Republicans held the governorship in Vermont.
The networks were taking extraordinary care in calling races after the 2000 debacle that left what NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called not just an egg but "an omelette" on their faces.
Thirty-four Senate seats, all 435 House seats and 11 governorships also were up for grabs at the end of the longest and costliest campaign in history. Projected Senate winners by early evening were Obama in Illinois; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; and Republican Johnny Isakson in Georgia, filling the seat vacated by conservative Democrat Zell Miller. Republicans were seeking to build on a 51-48 majority (Independent James Jeffords of Vermont sides with the Democrats).
Galvanized by issues ranging from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the Iraq war to same-sex marriage and the memory of the freakishly close 2000 election, upward of 120 million voters -- a record -- were expected to cast ballots for Bush, Kerry or, in some states, consumer activist Ralph Nader.
Republicans said Bush deserved re-election because he had responded strongly to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people -- first by toppling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and going after al-Qaida, the terror network that claimed responsibility for the attacks, there and around the world.
They said the president's subsequent decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 and depose Saddam Hussein was a logical next step in an effort to keep terrorists away from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
But the failure to find such weapons -- and an ongoing insurgency that has claimed more than 1,100 U.S. lives -- left the Democrats an opening they increasingly took advantage of during the campaign. Kerry called the war a "mistake," even though the senator voted to give Bush the authority to wage it. Bush called him a "flip-flopper."
A videotape of al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden that surfaced Friday served to remind voters that he had not been captured more than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks he ordered. But polls show that the public has more confidence in Bush to lead a war against terror, so the net effect was unclear and perhaps a draw.
Domestically, job losses during the Bush tenure and a ballooning federal deficit were also on voters' minds -- as was the divisive and still-disputed outcome of the 2000 election, one that Democrats vowed immediately to avenge. Bush won after a marathon 36-day legal battle settled by the U.S. Supreme Court. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, won the popular vote by about half a million votes.
As if emphasizing that outcome -- and reminding voters that the next president may well have the opportunity to shape the third branch of government for years to come -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist did not return as planned to the Supreme Court of the United States Monday after receiving treatment for thyroid cancer. Medical experts said the details of the announcement suggested Rehnquist might be suffering from a deadly, untreatable form of the disease and could not continue on the court.
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