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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:39 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 2 February 2010 02:47
From Yahoo News:
Illinois voters head to the polls Feb. 2 with an eye to replacing two tarnished officeholders: ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, indicted on federal corruption charges, and Sen. Roland Burris (D), named by Mr. Blagojevich to fill President Obama’s Senate seat in a process many see as tainted.
The primary election, the nation’s first in the 2010 season, will yield a clearer picture of Republicans’ chances of stealing these two seats from Democrats in a state that is reliably “blue.”
Heading into the primary, which last year was moved up to February, voters are sorting through a profusion of candidates on both sides and in both contests.
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