He finished in second place with 31percentt of the vote, falling to Democratic councilwoman Betsy Hodges.
was the first incumbent House representative to lose on Tuesday night, falling to Democratic challenger Gwen Graham in a race in which the congressman's comments about women became a major point of contention.
A short time later, Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) ― widely regarded as an NRA darling ― fell to Democratic challenger Jennifer Wexton in a battle for Virginia's 10th congressional district, which houses NRA's headquarters.
Political expediency has caused it to change many times, the last in 1974, when Gov. Malcolm A. Wilson, a Republican who was up for re-election, moved it from spring to fall to give Democratic candidates more time to attack one another and use up their resources.
The House seat in the neighboring Sixth District — once held by Newt Gingrich — fell to the Democratic candidate Lucy McBath, and Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor, carried the counties that immediately ring Atlanta.
Now that the committee has met, it could fall to Republican and Democratic leaders to force their rank-and-file members to relent on provisions blocking consensus.
The responsibility for providing something better now falls to the Democratic leadership, in particular Tom Daschle.
Here in Kansas, the two injunctions involve a law that established strict new regulations that would force two of the three abortion clinics in the state to close — previous versions had fallen to a Democratic governor's veto — and another that would cut off state money to Planned Parenthood.
As Myanmar prepares this fall to hold the first nationwide democratic elections since five decades of military rule ended in 2011, it is weighing further restrictions on the Rohingya and other minorities.
Now, as polls show that the president's approval rating has sunk to a Carter-like percentage in the 40s, Obama has seen yet another traditionally Democratic district fall to Republicans in a special election.
