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Republican John Warner appears to have edged out Democrat Andrew Miller in the race for Virginia’s U. S. Senate seat. Unofficial returns show Warner with 611,725 votes, or 50.13 per cent, and Miller with 608,457, or 49.87 per cent. With only one-third of one per cent of the 1.2 million votes cast separating the two
87.1%