FILE ** With the Capitol in the background, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio holds a terrorism briefing during a Capitol Hill news conference Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002. Ohio’s Democrats, hopeful their party will win enough seats Tuesday to take control of the U.S. House, are itching to push several of their own proposals that have long languished under a heavy Republican thumb. Even if they fall short of the 15 seats they need to become the majority party, Ohio’s House Democrats believe they’ll have more leverage to create coalitions with small groups of Republicans and still exercise more influence in the next two years. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)