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Could Blunt be Boehner's lifeline? (Politico)

 
Politico - Republican insiders are braced for bloodshed if the House GOP loses big in November — and they say that the keys to John A. Boehner’s survival as minority leader may be in the hands of his onetime rival. (link)

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