Republicans swept nearly every statewide office, and turnout among Democrats was low, thanks to a lackluster candidate for governor.

Immediately after the Republicans swept into power in 1994, they started downplaying any need to limit their terms.

Republicans also swept all of the area's seats in the state legislature, the majority of which were held by Democrats.

Then, when Republicans swept to control in 1994, the offices became the speaker's.

Only six years ago, the Republicans swept into control of the House on a radical right-wing program.

When the Republicans swept in, they quickly began devising a budgetary death for ecosystem management.

In 1980 and 1984, Republicans swept in several hundred new state legislators.

The 1994 race was in a year in which Republicans swept both houses of Congress.

That is the highest percentage since 1994, when Republicans swept Democrats out of power.

But the Republicans swept Congress last year by waging war on a political system that they said had lost its integrity.