The Republican Party has made important gains in the US Senate in midterm elections.<br /><br />Needing only to take six seats from the Democrats to take control, by late evening Colorado Arkansas Montana South Dakota and West Virginia had all turned RED.<br /><br />Republican Senator Mitch McConnell was an early winner in Kentucky.<br /><br />“It wasn’t about me or my opponent, it was about a government that people no longer trust to carry out it’s most basic duties: to keep them safe, to protect the border, to provide dignified and quality care for our veterans. A government that can’t be trusted to do the basic things because it’s to busy focusing on things that shouldn’t be focused on at all.”<br /><br />Obama whose 40 percent approval rating made him an unwelcome campaigner among his democrat colleagues, had been anticipating the losses.<br /><br />With the House of Representatives set to stay in Republican hands, the likely loss of the Senate complicates the presidents last two years in office.<br /><br />However the final results may not be known for weeks as at least one state, Louisiana will hold a runoff in December.
