Party Convictions Take Back Seat This Election; Candidates Put Their Efforts in the Struggle for Control of the House and Senate

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WASHINGTON (AP) - All politics is national in the 2006 midterm elections, with both parties willing to put aside deeply held views over war, taxes and more in the surpassing struggle for control of the House and Senate.

Which explains why a conservative Republican Party rejoiced Wednesday at the primary victory of Rhode Island's incorrigibly independent GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee, and struggled with the defeat of the more moderate of two leading contenders for a House seat in Arizona.

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Party Convictions Take Back Seat This Election; Candidates Put Their Efforts in the Struggle for Control of the House and Senate

Or why Democrats, whose leaders call daily for a timetable for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, were less than thrilled to find vigorously...

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