After nail-biting US midterm elections, concrete results are far from clear. Who will gain control of the US Senate will only become known on 6 December, after a runoff in Georgia. Politicians and their backers now jump into high gear in order to save the Democrats from losing their controlling share.
"We did not see the red wave that had been predicted and the message across the bow is that democracy is still pretty safe," says Martin Raxton, president of the Krimson Political Action Council (Pac), a lobby group.
