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Politics - Monday, September 8, 2008 2:06 - 0 Comments
Battles for Control of Congress Heat Up After Conventions (CQPolitics.com)
CQPolitics.com - The back-to-back Democratic and Republican convention extragavanzas gave both parties a chance to put their best foot forward as the general election campaign gets under way. If their competing efforts are a wash -- and the earliest post-convention polling suggests that -- the advantage remains with the Democrats as far as their push to expand their congressional majorities.
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