As the final hours of Campaign 2006 wound down, the big question was how voter discontent would translate into control of Congress in the last two years of President Bush's administration. "We really care about taking our country back, about changing the course in Iraq overseas, about helping average people pay the bills — the tuition bills and the prescription drug bills and the health-care bills and the energy bills — and that is why we are so passionate and so concerned about this election," Schumer told supporters around 8:45 p.m. "We're not breaking out the champagne bottles yet — it's gonna be a long night." But Elizabeth Dole, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Democrats are getting ahead of themselves with the celebratory mood. The crowd at GOP headquarters in Indianapolis welcomed re-elected Sen. Richard Lugar with applause and held up Lugar 2006 signs. Gov. Mitch Daniels, a former Lugar aide and campaign manager,
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