21.   And Democrats maintained their majorities in the Legislature by comfortable margins, although they lost seats in both houses.

22.   And as expected, the big losers are New York and Pennsylvania, which will lose two seats each.

23.   And Democrats could lose another seat in Virginia, where the perennially challenged Sen. Chuck Robb is once again trailing in a bid for re-election.

24.   And his chosen partners, the Communists, were seen as a declining force, having lost many seats in elections last month.

25.   And nowhere did Democrats go deeper into the tank than in Washington, losing six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

26.   And its preference for investigations of the president left the public unhappy enough that Republicans lost seats in the House.

27.   And most analysts believe the Communists would lose legislative seats in a new election.

28.   And with Republican control of the House hanging by a thread, the GOP can ill afford to lose two seats they are now favored to hold.

29.   And the Republicans actually lose two seats in North Carolina, one in Kentucky, and come out even in Oklahoma.

30.   As the Democrats were losing that seat, they were picking up the Florida seat held by the retiring Connie Mack.