All three challengers were shown to have lost even in their own home regions, despite strong local loyalties and the expectation of state largesse from having sons in high places.

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The number of seats in the House would rise from 435 to 437, because the deal that smoothed the bill through also gives an extra seat to Utah, in the expectation that the western state would elect a Republican to balance the Democrat DC was likely to elect.

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This suggests that she could keep her party in a state of fevered expectation for months to come.

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U.S. officials said Monday that the White House and State Department were preparing statements with the expectation that investigators will make the link to Hezbollah.

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The expectation is that, because Vermont is such a strongly Democratic state, leaving the Republican Party probably won't hurt him all that much back in his home state--at least that's what most people familiar with Vermont politics believe, including, by the way Representative Bernie Sanders, who is Vermont's independent member of the House of Represenatives.

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Without significant investment at the state level, the public risk the worst of all possible worlds: the expectation that there will be a cop-on-the-beat, policing managers and their funds, without there actually being one.

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To the extent the public vote was for Sharon, rather than against Barak, the expectation was that Sharon would end Barak's appeasement policies and defeat Arafat and the terror state he had built in Gaza, Judea and Samaria.

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The Czech state was induced to compensate those among its nationals who were victims of Nazi aggression in the expectation that Germany would reimburse it, even on an incremental basis.

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