She faced a primary challenge on Tuesday and was leading her opponent by only 41 votes yesterday.

She was leading her Republican opponent by 30 percentage points in partial results.

Jon Porter, the other incumbent, led his opponent with 11 percent of the precincts reporting.

He only led his closest opponent by two votes.

He started out leading his Republican opponent, Mark L. Earley, a surprise to just about everyone.

She was leading her Republican opponent, Harry Singleton, by a margin of 60 percent to 30 percent.

Senator Clinton led her opponent, John Spencer, by 67 to 31 percent.

The incident embarrassed the administration but had little impact on the campaign in which Johnson led his opponent by large margins.

In the August 2006 Rasmussen poll, Hutchison led her opponent by 30 percentage points - 61 to 31.

He has amassed a campaign war chest of $13 million and leads his likely Democratic opponent by more than 50 points in the latest poll.