Democrat Scott Colom seals surprise win in Mississippi Senate race
BBC News reports that Democrat Scott Colom won Mississippi's US Senate race by a few thousand votes over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, a shock in a state that had elected only Republicans since 1982. He becomes the state's first Democratic senator since 1982 and its first black US Senator in more than 140 years, helping Democrats win a 55-seat Senate majority in the midterms.
