Parties Garner Last-Minute Support, Wait for Election Results: ; Low Turnout Expected Despite Huge Campaign to Unseat Democrats

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The voting machines are ready, the last-minute get-out-the-vote phone calls are completed, and Republicans and Democrats are waiting to see which party will control the state Legislature for the next two years.

Massey Energy Co. chief executive Don Blankenship has waged an unprecedented multimillion-dollar statewide campaign to drive Democrats from the Legislature.

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Parties Garner Last-Minute Support, Wait for Election Results: ; Low Turnout Expected Despite Huge Campaign to Unseat Democrats

As of Thursday, Blankenship had poured $2.03 million of his own money into his independent campaign that attacked 40 incumbent lawmakers while urging voters to support 41 ...

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