Politics

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Ivory Coast Electoral Commission workers on Wednesday carry sealed bags containing votes to be tallied by the EC in Abidjan. With about 35 percent of votes cast, President Laurent Gbagbo had a three-point lead over main opponent Alassane Ouattara. (Associated Press)

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Poll workers and political party agents count votes by the light of a battery-powered lamp in a voting station near Bouake, a former rebel stronghold. The election is the first since 2002. (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama walks past a portrait of former President Jimmy Carter, right, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, as he headed to the East Room for a news conference the day after the midterm elections. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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** FILE ** President Obama answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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** FILE ** New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch — alongside his children (from second from left), Julia, Jackie and Hayden — celebrates his re-election at a victory party in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Josh Gibney)

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Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (left) is consoled by brother Dan and sister Jennie after conceding the Diamond State election to her Democratic opponent on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in Dover, Del.

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Sen.-elect Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, celebrates his win over Christine O'Donnell at an election-night rally in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday. Mr. Coons is joined on stage by wife Annie and two of his children.

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Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania (second right), waits in line to cast his ballot in Gradyville on Tuesday. (Associated Press photographs)

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New Hampshire Sen.-elect Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, with husband Joe Daley by her side, celebrates winning the Senate race in Concord, N.H., on Tuesday.

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Former Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana Republican, is en route back to the Senate after an 11-year absence. (Associated Press)

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Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. talks to reporters before voting in Annapolis, Md., with his wife, Kendel Ehrlich, in this file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada addresses volunteers at a campaign office in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Reid campaign painted the opponent as a radical extremist who wanted to end Social Security, work with Scientologists to give prisoners massages and eliminate veterans' benefits.

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Sharron Angle, the GOP Senate candidate, reminds the media that voting is supposed to be private as she casts her vote in Reno.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and candidate for governor talks to reporters before voting in Annapolis, Md., with his wife, Kendel Ehrlich, on Tuesday.

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Morgan Griffith, Republican congressional candidate (center), greets a voter Tuesday morning at Van Pelt Elementary School in Bristol, Va.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Candidate for the Virginia's 5th Congressional District, Rep. Tom Perriello, a Democrat, makes his concession speech surrounded by family Tuesday in Charlottesville. He lost to state Sen. Robert Hurt, who had about 51 percent of the vote to Mr. Perriello's 47 percent with 94 percent of precincts reporting.