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Published 12/31/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - Democrats were under pressure Wednesday to bar an African-American statesman from the US Senate after the corruption-tainted Illinois governor's defiant appointment to fill the seat vacated by president-elect Barack Obama.
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