Former Gov. Angus King of Maine has been declared the winner in that state’s U.S. Senate race. King, running as an independent, easily outpolled still competition to take over the seat currently held by retiring Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe.
Another independent, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, has also been re-elected.
Democrats now control the Senate 53-47. That includes Bernie Sanders and retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who was re-elected in 2006 as an independent but who has caucused with the Democrats for the past six years.
King has refused to openly state what party he would side with for organizational purposes.
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