WASHINGTON - Democrats challenged Republicans for control of Congress during President Bush's final two years in office Tuesday in elections shadowed by an unpopular war in Iraq and scandal at home. Thirty-six states elected governors, from Maine to California.
All 435 House seats were on the ballot along with 33 Senate races, elections that Democrats sought to make a referendum on the president's handling of the war, the economy and more.
The first returns of the night made Rep. Bernie Sanders, an independent, a winner in the Vermont Senate race, succeeding retiring Sen. James Jeffords. Brooklyn-born with an accent to match, Sanders is an avowed Socialist who will side …
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