Republicans flipped their first Senate seat for the night, with Rep. Shelley Moore Capito winning the open seat in West Virginia that was left vacant by retiring Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller. This result was widely expected.
Capito, first elected to the House in 2000, easily defeated the Democratic nominee, state Secretary of State Natalie Tennant.
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President Obama and national Democrats have become so unpopular in this state, that Tennant even ran an ad in which she cut off electricity to the White House.