The fate of a record seven Indian-Americans, six of them Democrats, hangs in balance in Tues-day’s elections, with US President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party expected to lose seats in both chambers. But Republican Nikki Haley is favoured to win the governor’s race in South Carolina.
She is widely expected to defeat Democratic nominee, state senator Vince Sheheen. If she wins, she will be America’s second Indian-American governor after Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, also a Republican, who became the first with his election three years ago.
Democrat Kamala Harris, San Francisco district attorney, is in a statistical 39 per cent-38 per cent tie with Republican Steve Cooley, Los Angeles county district attorney, for California attorney-general, according to a Field Poll released Saturday. —IANS