Associated Press, By Charles Babington: Veteran Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas lost his seat Tuesday to a freshman House Republican, putting the GOP a step closer to its goal of controlling the Senate for the first time in eight years.
Rep. Tom Cotton’s win brightened an already happy night for Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who won a sixth term of his own and was poised to become the Senate majority leader if his party could gain six new seats overall.
Cotton, an Iraq combat veteran and Harvard Law School graduate, joined virtually every other Republican nationwide in relentlessly linking his opponent to President Obama, whose popularity has sagged. Read entire article here: http://www.navytimes.com/article/20141104/NEWS05/311040064/Army-vet-Tom-Cotton-elected-U-S-Senate