Update: Whitehouse to supporters: 'Is this exciting or what?'
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PROVIDENCE -- Sheldon Whitehouse took to the 17th floor of the Providence Biltmore two hours after polls closed, the apparent victor in the high-profile U.S. Senate race here in Rhode Island. The Democrat greeted his cheering supporters with, "Is this exciting or what?" After giving a series of thanks, he also noted that incumbent U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee had called him to "very graciously concede." He also thanked Chafee -- who initially inherited his Senate seat from his late father, U.S. Sen. John H. Chafee -- for "a long and proud legacy of public service in Rhode Island." "I intend to go down to Washington and work my heart out for you every day," Whitehouse added. After taking the podium for about 10 minutes, Whitehouse is now making rounds of the room, giving hugs and shaking hands. The ballroom was so crowded tonight that people could barely move, with a large number of young people among the attendees. And the wait for the elevator to get to the 17th floor was more than a half hour. -- With reports from projo.com staff writer Steve Peoples 
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Its a sad day for RI, that we have lost Mr. Chaffee. I have nothing personal against Mr. Whitehouse but Mr Chaffee has the experience and had so much going for RI. Now we have to start all over w/ a junior senator. What will happen to all those projects Mr Chaffee was working on, gone............? OK Mr Whitehouse when are you & the new junior senators going to get us out of this mess we're in over seas??????????????
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Ok, We RI sent a message to Washington and President Bush. We got rid of a senator who voted against going to Iraq and publicly admitted he did not vote for president Bush in the last election. Now we have a junior senator with no power who says that he is going to fix everything that the democrats said the president did wrong. I hope the democrats can do everything they said they would in order to get elected. This is their chance to shine. Since it was said during this election that it was a bad thing that one party held congress and the presidency, does this mean that it will be a good thing to have a republican president to offset the democratically controlled congress?
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