cardboard cut-outs. i m shannon bream. shannon: in their 10th debate the gop candidates talked about something besides the economy. last night s focus was on foreign policy and national security with republican contenders taking on topics from iran, wars, waterboarding. carl cameron is in greenville, south carolina covering it all. mitt romney has cruised to the debates unscathed. did that continue last night? reporter: to some extent it did. the debates have supplanted retail hand-to-hand campaigning in many states. here palmetto state s primary two months away. last night s debate was a deal a real introduction. mitt romney really didn t get attacked by any of his rivals. throughout the debate no candidate singled out another by name and took a deck shot at all for mitt romney it is a sign he has continued his grasp of the top spot and his ability to contend for wins in these early states. he didn t get dinged up in any way. though he lacks a certain amount of foreign
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distances. many believe that was sell was a lock to win this seat over any democratic challenger. it was not to be. this was the seat formerly held by vice president joe fox news also projecting now that kelly ayotte will win the seat in new hampshire. she is the state s former aattorney general. she faced paul hodes and led steadily throughout this contest. this is not a huge surprise. she will be replacing retiring republican senator judd greg. bret: projection in missouri roy blunt will win handily against robin carnahan. polls were once close in this battle between the heirs of two powerful missouri political families. the deep unpopularity of the obama agenda in the show-me state pushed eight term congressman blunt over the top. and fox news can now project that maryland senator barbara mikulski will win over eric war g.p.s. wargotz.
later today. 1:00 eastern. and we re also hearing from the next speaker of the house, john boehner. let s talk about the senate for a second, though. in the senate, democrats held on to control but just barely. they retain control of the upper chamber despite some big losses. harry reid will be the majority leader of the senate but his majority will have dwindled to the bare min numb, 51 seats in democratic seats in the senate. harry hooed has his i don t know this morning. the senate majority leader able to defeat tea party-backed republican sharron angle by five points in nevada last night taking a look. 50-45 in that race. another race, this is the kentucky senate race and rand paul, tea party candidate, did very well. 97% of the votes have been counted right now and rand paul has an easy win, 56% for rand paul. 44% for jack conway his co competit competitor. paul says he wants to abolish the u.s. department of education. florida, marco rubio is bound for the senate. a son
couric: and this is a special western edition. good evening, everyone. control of the new 112th congress is on the line this midterm election night. the polls are now closed in more than half the states, including arkansas where cbs news projects republican john boozeman has defeated senator blanche lincoln. she s the first incumbent democrat in the senate to lose a seat tonight. another senate pickup for the g.o.p., indiana. dan coats takes the seat of retiring democrat evan bayh. in the bellwether state of ohio, we project rob portman the winner. the seat remains republican. in connecticut, democrat richard blumenthal is the projected winner his race against republican linda mcmahon, former c.e.o. of the w.w.e . in florida, tea party favorite marco rubio wins a three-way race, a key hold for the republicans. and in kentucky, another win for the tea party. rand paul defeats democrat jack conway. in delaware, democrat chris coons defeats christine o donnell for joe biden s
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