In the US riding on an anti-incumbency wave sweeping the country opposition republican are poised to take control of the House of Representatives. The Democrats are likely to retain the Senate with a slender margin. Counting began soon after polling closed in 50 states of the country. Initial trends indicate that the Republicans are sweeping the polls as predicted by various opinion polls. The party needs 39 seats to win majority in the House of Representatives. AIR correspondent covering the election reports from Las Vagas that American elections sees a fascinating story unfold as the balance of powers shifts to the Republicans in the Congress.Meanwhile, Indian-American Nikki Haley created history today by becoming the first woman governor of South Carolina. Her Republican party trounced the Democratic party of US President Barack Obama in the nationwide mid-term elections.Nikki was born of Sikh parents who migrated from Punjab, Haley created history by becoming the first woman to occupy the governor's mansion of South Carolina.She is only the second India-American to be a Governor of a US State after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana; and also the first Indian-American woman governor.However, the news so far is not good for the rest of the other major Indian-American candidates running for the USHouse of Representatives, as all of them were trailing when reports last came in.A record number of six Indian Americans were in the fray. Five of them are Democrats – Manan Trivedi fromPennsylvania, Ami Bera from California, Raj Goyle from Kansas, Ravi Sangisetty from Louisiana and Surya Yalamanchili from Ohio.Ashvin Lad from Illinois is the only Republican Indian American in fray. In Pennsylvania, Trivedi, a Iraq war veteran, was initially ahead of his Republican rival JimGerlach but the latter took the lead later on.If elected Trivedi would be only the third Indian American to enter the House of Representatives – after Dalip Singh Saund and Bobby Piyush Jindal.