CBS Evening News - Election Night 2006
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[0:03] I'm Katie kurick tonight the battle for
[0:06] congress after months of campaigning the
[0:08] handshaking the speeches and the ads are
[0:11] finally over now the voters are having
[0:13] the last word on who will control the
[0:15] house and the Senate voters worried
[0:17] about the war and struggling with those
[0:20] new electronic voting
[0:26] machines this is the CBS Evening News
[0:29] with Katie Curry reporting from CBS News
[0:32] election headquarters in New York hi
[0:35] everyone well it's election night and
[0:37] voters all over the country are deciding
[0:39] who will control the new Congress the
[0:41] Republicans have been in charge of the
[0:43] senate for most of the past 12 years
[0:46] they now hold all those seats in red
[0:48] Democrats the blue to change the balance
[0:51] of power six seats would have to move
[0:53] from the Republicans to the Democrats
[0:55] meanwhile the Republicans have
[0:57] controlled the house for all of the past
[0:59] 12 years
[1:00] the Democrats would need to pick up 15
[1:02] seats to shift the balance of power to
[1:05] them now polls are still open in much of
[1:07] the country if they're open where you
[1:09] are and you haven't voted please do then
[1:12] come back to CVS and watch your vote
[1:14] count we have a terrific team of
[1:16] correspondents here in our election
[1:18] headquarters and all across the country
[1:20] and we'll begin tonight with the dean of
[1:22] our team our chief Washington
[1:23] correspondent Bob Sheaffer Bob what can
[1:25] you tell us so far well here's what we
[1:28] can't say we can't talk about indiv
[1:29] idual races because the polls haven't
[1:32] closed yet Katie but if our Nationwide
[1:35] exit polls are right the wind is blowing
[1:37] very much f