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Students Follow Their Home State Elections

GOP Victories Expected Nationwide

"I would have probably voted for Robb anyway, but I voted for him so North would not get elected," she says.

Pennsylvania

The races are close in Pennsylvania as well, with incumbent Sen. Harris Wofford's campaign against Republican challenger Rick Santorum too close to call, while Democratic Lt. Governor Mark Singel and Republican challenger Tom Ridge are in a dead heat.

"I support Santorum because he is cutting budget spending," said Leo G. Polanowski '98 of Elizabethtown, Penn. "I met Wofford once and he was kind of pompous."

Political experts are predicting that the Republican party will gain ground in both houses of Congress and in Governor's seats across the country.

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"Republicans will take the Senate and have a fifty percent chance of taking the House as well," said AJ Hunt at the IOP panel Wednesday. Hunt is Washington executive editor for the Wall Street Journal and a regular on CNN's "Capital Gang."

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