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What took me from “Oh man” to “Oh damn!” was a pair of out-of-control sneaks. I was wearing some limited-edition, pink-and-orange Nike dunks...
...spinning in his grave. Elizabeth Dole, the wife of former GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole, won Helms' North Carolina Senate seat by a comfortable nine-point margin after he vacated it in 2002. Then in 2006, as head of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, Dole managed to hand control of the Senate to Democrats by presiding over a surprise loss of six seats. Now Dole is in danger of losing Helms' seat itself to Democratic State Senator Kay Hagan - and perhaps handing the Democrats a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority in the process...
...flip into the Democratic column. The backlash continued in 2006, with more dramatic results. Riding a tide of anti-war opinion, two Democratic challengers upset both of the state's GOP congressmen. Popular Governor John Lynch held onto his seat with 76% of the vote, and Democrats took control of both the state House and Senate, putting the party in charge of both the executive and legislative branches for the first time since the 19th century...
...Games sometimes—very much like the Wisconsin game—they can get out of control very quickly,” Stone says. “That’s something that sometimes just happens...
...Florida is a vital state to the Republican cause,” Gaylor said. “There’s a strong conservative population there, and many of the independent voters don’t want to see a Democrat elected to the White House when they already control Congress...