Stalwart senators like Byron Dorgan of North Dakota politely gave up without a fight, and the Democrats lost House seats in both of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Kansas.
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The result could easily have gone the other way: most Republican pollsters concede that the party would have lost the House but for a favourable wind in the last fortnight of the campaign.
The following year, the Republicans lost thirty House seats and the Democrats took over Congress.
The next year, the Democrats lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
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And of all places, they were assigned to help out on Kansas Avenue. (Laughter and applause.) I don't know who set that up. (Laughter.) And while they hauled away washing machines and refrigerators from the debris, they met a woman named Carol Mann, who had just lost the house she lived in for 18 years.
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Sure, the Republicans lost a House seat by ejecting a moderate and backing a fire-breather.
By 2006 Republicans had lost the House, by 2008 the presidency.
The Republicans in the House that month had lost five seats, a surprising setback considering they had expected to gain a dozen or more (their campaign chairman said 20 or more).
Mr Clegg had lost a Cabinet minister to an alleged traffic offence, lost his plan to reform the House of Lords and "lost loads of elections".
Normally, there is a far greater net change in the House (which has more than four times the membership of the Senate), but in 1986, the Republicans lost just 5 seats in the House elections compared to a whopping eight Senate seats.
The last time unemployment was anything like its current level of 9.6% at a mid-term election, in 1982, the president's party lost 26 seats in the House, even though it was already in the minority.
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But the business was dominated by the armored-vehicles side of the house, and she lost out to a candidate who had made his name there.
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Indeed, in those eight states the Democrats lost only one House member.
He lost a Cabinet minister to an alleged traffic offence, he lost his plan to reform the House of Lords, and yes, he lost loads of elections.
But the fact that Lugo lost all his support in the lower house of Congress -- only one lawmaker voted against impeachment -- is a sign that politics are at play, too, Galeano said.
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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost ground in the elections for the upper house this summer, partly by forcing through benefit cuts and higher premiums on pensions.
It essentially mirrored an amendment on the House side that lost 214-216 earlier in the week.
I've already lost help in the house and I may well lose my car which will leave me isolated.
His Social Democrats lost control of the upper house, the Bundesrat, after a defeat in a state election in February.
Not knowing if the house would be lost or the utilities shut off could force many significant others, spouses and children to pile onto the equation with their own additional negative stress.
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Moreover, as a leading member of the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house, where the Social Democrats have lost their majority, Mr Biedenkopf could be well placed to help mediate and negotiate.
Two years ago, they lost 30 seats in the House but somehow, he survives.
"So basically I've lost my house to the bank and I am struggling to pay the interest, " he says.
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The Millington resident said he lost a house to a fire in 2009.
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Only JFK, since WWII, has lost Ohio yet won the White House.
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Last year, her party lost its majority in the Upper House after failing to hold on to another highly populated region, North Rhine-Westphalia.
"Only his mother appeared before the judge to say that she had lost control of her son after he left the house at about age 11, " the prosecutor, said.
"The house, it's just a house, but she lost her family, " said Ms. Anderson, who lives nearby.
The US had communicated to the Libyan government that "such a welcome sends the wrong message and is deeply offensive to the families of the hundreds of people who lost their lives in the Lockerbie bombing", the White House said.
Lest the point be lost, announcers in the game chant, "Protect this house, " and gamers can clad their fighters in UA gear.
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