Midterm election 2000 (west wing)

The Midterm elections 2000
[[Image:107_us_house_membership.png|thumb|left|300px|
{|- style="background-color:transparent"
|{{legend|#f00|80.1-100% Republican}}
|{{legend|#00f|80.1-100% Democratic}}
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|{{legend|#f66|60.1-80% Republican}}
|{{legend|#09f|60.1-80% Democratic}}
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|{{legend|#f99|<=60% Republican}}
|{{legend|#0ff|<=60% Democratic}}
|-
| 
|{{legend|#ff0|80.1-100% Independent}}
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|colspan="2"|House seats by party holding plurality in state
|}]]
==Background==
After The Assassination attempt on President Josiah Bartlet and his 81% approval rating it looked like the elections were going to be close with the house with a 198 to 237 lead in the Republicans favor and the senate 39 to 61 in the Republicans favor the Democrats needed to get a lot of seats.
==elections==
House elections
Matt Santos furture president won a seat in Texas by a 53% to 47% margin. [[Jeff Haffley]] representative from Washington won a 3rd term with 60% of the vote. Bertram Coles (D): Considered to be a "Blue Dog" conservative. Threatened the President during a radio interview, inviting retribution from Toby Ziegler he won a second term narrowly by 600 votes. [[Glen Allen Walken]] actting president in 2003 won a 4th term with 65%. Sam Seaborn asks an old law-school friend to run in his home district for the House—unfortunately, the friend has been accused of being a racist (due to picking white juries for black suspects during his tenure as D.A.) and Leo pulls the plug, [...] off money and canceling a visit by the President. He loses 42% to 58%.
Senate elections
Aronald Vinck won anothor term with 62% of the vote.
==results==
In the end the Democrats lost defeating 12 incumbents. Although in 2002 they would take back the House but not the Senate.

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