Obama, Democrats fear rout as US polls open
President Barack Obama’s Democrats face a day of reckoning as US voters headed to the polls on Tuesday. The election is likely to see Republicans seize control of the House of Representatives and gain broad new powers to attack Obama’s agenda. Democrats feared heavy losses as well in the Senate, but analysts forecast they would cling to a narrow majority, dividing power in Washington and setting the stage for a superheated political war ahead of Obama’s 2012 reelection bid. After a bitter year-long campaign shaped by voter anger at the sour economy, election day kicked off with eight eastern states opening their voting booths in the pre-dawn chill at 6:00 am (1000 GMT), and would wrap up…
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