51.  Hamilton was planning on making the donations to the Democratic state parties, Gage said, even before Sullivan made his request.

52.  He gambled that he could build a new Republican party from scratch in his Democratic state based primarily on white resentment of federally enforced racial integration.

53.  Hawaii is perhaps the most Democratic state.

54.  He lost, not unexpectedly, in the heavily Democratic state.

55.  He taunted his rival for failing to wrap up Democratic states.

56.  Healey had lived in Beverly for three years when she took on Democratic state Representative Mike Cahill, a lifelong city resident whose father had been in politics.

57.  He was a popular second-term Republican governor in a heavily Democratic state.

58.  His losses in key Democratic states and his failure to carry his home state of Tennessee have raised questions about his electability in the future.

59.  Historically a Democratic state, Washington had the biggest House turnover in the country last November.

60.  Huckabee was widely favored to beat Democratic state Attorney General Winston Bryant, but now Bryant has a slight edge.