The US mid-term Congressional elections have rewritten the political map of the United States. A resurgent Republican Party has taken control of the House of Representatives. Nowhere their joy more complete than in the town of Wheeling, Illinois where the conservative, Mark Kirk, won the Senate seat once held by one Barack Obama. As the BBC's Kevin Connolly reports, it was near run thing.

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