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Democrats Take Hastert's Seat
Sunday, March 9, 2008 10:34 AM
CHICAGO -- A Democrat captured on Saturday an Illinois U.S. House of Representatives seat that had been a Republican stronghold, in a symbolic blow to President George W. Bush's party ahead of November elections.
Returns showed physicist and businessman Bill Foster beating dairy owner Jim Oberweis by 52 percent to 48 percent of the vote in the district that had been held by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert for more than two decades.
Sunday, March 9, 2008 10:34 AM
CHICAGO -- A Democrat captured on Saturday an Illinois U.S. House of Representatives seat that had been a Republican stronghold, in a symbolic blow to President George W. Bush's party ahead of November elections.
Returns showed physicist and businessman Bill Foster beating dairy owner Jim Oberweis by 52 percent to 48 percent of the vote in the district that had been held by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert for more than two decades.