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DENVER (AP) Democrat Andrew Romanoff is hoping for an upset in a congressional district in Denver's eastern suburbs that has been in Republican hands since its creation more than 30 years ago.

The former state House speaker's bid against three-term Republican Rep. Mike Coffman is one of the country's most competitive U.S. House races. It also is the most expensive congressional race in state history.

Romanoff moved to Aurora last year to challenge Coffman. The district has been redrawn to include more Democrats and unaffiliated voters and is now about 20 percent Latino.

Coffman hasn't taken the challenge sitting down. He has been aggressively courting the district's many immigrant groups and has learned Spanish to help communicate with his constituents.

The new boundaries and growing influence of Latino and immigrant voters have driven the race, which will determine who controls a Colorado House delegation that consists of four Republicans and three Democrats. Coffman is the only incumbent facing a real challenge.

The two candidates have raised more than $9 million, according to federal campaign finance disclosures. The national parties and their allies have spent several million more. According to the Wesleyan Media Project, the race checks in at sixth-highest in the nation this year for television ad volume.

Romanoff describes Coffman as an out-of-touch conservative whose background as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration makes him a bad fit for the current district.

"It is very important to me that we have, in this district, a congressman who respects our diversity," Romanoff said last week at the pair's final debate, conducted in Spanish.

But Coffman has softened his immigration tone dramatically since the district was redrawn after the 2010 Census. He's spent weekends learning Spanish and has kept up a tireless schedule meeting with Aurora's many immigrant communities.

Coffman insists he can relate to the district's many newcomers.

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New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen won reelection to a second Senate term Tuesday, withstanding a late push by Republicans to use a toxic national political environment against her.

Shaheen, the first woman in the nation ever elected both governor and senator, relied on her track record in elective office and her well-honed political machine to fend off a challenge from former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican who crossed the border from Massachusetts in a bid to return to the Senate.

The Associated Press called the race for Shaheen with about 32% of precincts reporting.

New Hampshire, where politics is an unofficial sport, has been particularly prone to swings in the national political climate. Shaheen lost her first bid for the Senate in 2002, but won a 2008 rematch against John Sununu on the back of President Obamas first race for the White House.

Brown would have become just the third person to represent multiple states in the Senate and the first since 1879.

In Massachusetts, he shocked the political world in 2010 by winning a special election to fill the seat held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat. Brown's victory was an early indicator of opposition to Obamas healthcare law. But Brown lost his bid for a full six-year term in 2012 to Democrat Elizabeth Warren.

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Projected Governor of Pennsylvania Democrat Tom Wolf is expected to speak from his camp shortly.

Democrat Tom Wolf on the Projected Results from WolfForPA.com:

"I'm about to go on stage in my hometown of York, but I wanted to thank you first.

As I travelled all across Pennsylvania during this campaign, I was amazed at the dedication, energy, and enthusiasm put forth by supporters like you to encourage others to participate in our democracy.

You made this campaign about more than electing me -- you made it about people coming together to improve our schools, our neighborhoods, and our state.

Throughout my life, I've found that the only way to get things done right is to listen, to treat people fairly, and to include everyone in the process. It's that kind of collaboration that allowed me to turn my former business around, and it's the approach we need to take to bring about the bright future this great commonwealth deserves.

Governor Tom Corbett, Lt. Governor Jim Cawley, and their many supporters deserve our respect and admiration for running a campaign focused on the issues. While we may disagree on ideology, we all agree that Pennsylvania's best days are ahead of us.

I hope you keep your passion for Pennsylvania alive by continuing to connect with residents all across our commonwealth. In the days and weeks ahead, I urge you to reach out to your neighbors -- especially those who didn't support this campaign -- and ask them what you can do together to improve your community.

The conversations you have may surprise you.

If we're going to fund a world-class public education system, create family-sustaining jobs, bring about fairness and equality under the law, provide access to affordable health care, build safe communities, and keep Pennsylvania beautiful, it's going to take all of us doing our part.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Democrat Tom Wolf was elected Pennsylvania governor Tuesday after the businessman and first-time candidate spent $10 million of his own money on an early TV ad campaign that endeared him to voters and helped send unpopular Gov. Tom Corbett to a historic defeat.

When he takes office in January, Wolf will likely face a Republican-controlled Legislature and a yawning budget deficit as he tries to make good on a promise to dramatically increase the state government's share of public school costs.

Corbett is the first governor to go down in defeat in the four decades since the state's chief executive was allowed to run for a second term. The former two-term state attorney general could not overcome a rocky first term and struggled to sell his record as a fiscal and social conservative.

Wolf, 65, from the tiny town of Mount Wolf, named after an ancestor, will become the 47th governor of Pennsylvania and the first since Richard Thornburgh in 1979 never to have held elective office.

He led his family's cabinetry and building materials distribution business in central Pennsylvania for much of the past three decades, becoming a pillar of York's business, civic and philanthropic community.

In spite of a two-year stint as former Gov. Ed Rendell's revenue secretary, a job for which he donated his salary, he remained a political unknown until he began a folksy ad campaign last winter in which he promised to be a "different kind of governor."

He introduced himself to voters as a mild-mannered, Jeep-driving small-town businessman who had gone to India with the Peace Corps, earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shared profits with the employees at his company.

In an expensive Democratic primary, he easily defeated three rivals who were far more seasoned in politics.

The businessman aggressively attacked cuts in education funding and criticized the state's relatively slow rate of job creation under Corbett. He also won favor by promising to slap higher taxes on the state's booming natural gas industry to make it pay its "fair share."

Wolf said he would restore $1 billion that Corbett had cut from education aid, overhaul Corbett's plan to expand Medicaid under the 2010 federal health care law, and end the use of an asset test to determine whether someone is eligible for food stamps. He also argued against the need to scale back pension benefits for future school and state employees, despite the state's huge pension debt.

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