Republicans had a disappointing election but reached a major goal.

It's now certain they captured control of the House of Representatives.

How will a new House Speaker manage to unite a narrow majority?

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For all of their disappointments in the midterm elections, Republicans now have one big

game.

The last two days of the election, the House of Representatives captured control of the House

of Representatives.

This became clear when the Associated Press called a House race in California last night.

Republican Representative Mike Garcia won re-election.

Though counting continues it now seems certain the party won at least 218 seats, the

narrowest possible majority.

About six races are still uncertain but the Republican margin won't be much larger.

Still a majority is a majority and NPR's Claudette Grisalis will cover that new Congress.

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