November 2nd, 2010
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No African-Americans in next U.S. Senate
By: CNN Special Correspondent Soledad O'Brien
New York [[CNN) – Despite record election achievements by African-Americans in the House, the United States Senate will not have an African-American in its ranks.
All three black Senate candidates, Kendrick Meek [[D-FL), Alvin Greene [[D-SC) and Mike Thurmond [[D-GA) are projected to lose tonight. The only incumbent black senator, Roland Burris [[D-IL), is retiring.
Only six black senators have served: three Republicans and three Democrats, including the future President Barack Obama [[D-IL).
There have been 118 voting members of Congress who are African-American. This year the GOP has 14 African-Americans on the ballot, any one of which could become the first black Republican in the house since 2003.
There are 41 African-American Democrats in Congress of which most are running in majority black districts. CNN projects Alabama sent its first African-American woman to Congress tonight with the election of Terri Sewell in the state's 7th district. She is a Democrat.
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