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| Obama, Democrats fear rout as US |
| Obama, Democrats fear rout as US polls open
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-November-2010
11:38:7 AM |
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President Barack Obama's Democrats face a day of reckoning as US voters headed to the polls on Tuesday in an election likely to see Republicans seize control of the House of Representatives and gain broad new powers to attack his agenda.
Democrats feared heavy losses as well in the Senate, but analysts forecast they would cling to a narrow majority, dividing power in Washington and setting the stage for a superheated political war ahead of Obama's 2012 re-election bid.
After a bitter year-long campaign shaped by voter anger at the sour economy, election day kicked off with eight eastern states opening their voting booths in the pre-dawn chill at 6 am (1000 GMT), and would wrap up after midnight (0400 GMT Wednesday) in remote Alaska and Hawaii.
By 7 am voting stations in several more locales were open, including the key populous states of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, where polls show the Republican candidate with a slight lead in the race for Obama's old Senate seat.
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