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RI results are in, and it looks like the Democrats have grabbed all three contested seats.  Jack Reed will continue his tenure as Rhode Island Senator, and Patrick Kennedy and James Langevin have been reelected as State Reps.   

Jack Reed took the stage after his victory, naming health care, tax benefits for the middle class, and ending dependence on foreign oil as three of his top priorities.  “As Americans our work begins tomorrow.  We measure our success not by the success of a few, but by the opportunity for all.”  This, he said, is the foundation of the Democratic Party. 

Representative Sheldon Whitehouse tied the local with the national; “It has been an exciting, exciting day, and I think in a few hours we will see that today is not just a moment in time.  It’s a moment in history.”

Wild applause, “Obama!” chants, jazzy refrains from the live band: Hope is all around here at the Democrats’ election party.   “We have to retire ‘yes we can,’” said an event organizer,  “and change it to ‘yes you did’”

-Rachel Katz and Maggie Lange