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Democrats Regain Control of House NewsMax.com Wires WASHINGTON -- Democrats won 15 Republican-held districts Tuesday in nearly every region of the country, enough to wrest control of the House if all incumbents hold their seats. NBC News has predicted that the Democrats may ultimately end up winning 32 House seats when all the votes are counted nationwide. Fox News Channel predicts the Democrats may win as many as 30 seats overall in the House. As voters demonstrated their disenchantment with a war, a president and scandals on Capitol Hill, Rep. Nancy Pelosi predicted, "We are on the brink of a great Democratic victory." The California Democrat is in line to become the first female House speaker if her party gains 15 seats to win control of the House and end the GOP's 12-year reign.
In the conservative Ohio River Valley, Democrats ousted John Hostettler, Chris Chocola and Mike Sodrel in Indiana, and Anne Northup in Kentucky. In the Northeast, Nancy Johnson in Connecticut and Charles Bass in New Hampshire lost.
To the West, a Democrat won an Arizona seat left open by Jim Kolbe's retirement. In the South, Charles Taylor lost to a former NFL quarterback in North Carolina and Clay Shaw failed to win re-election in Florida.
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Ethics woes were clearly taking their toll on the GOP: Republicans surrendered the Ohio seat once held by Bob Ney, who resigned after pleading guilty in a lobbying scandal, while Democrats defeated Curt Weldon in Pennsylvania in the fallout from a federal corruption investigation.
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